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INDIANAPOLIS: Two rain delays, 11 caution flags, and a generous helping of crashes after its scheduled Sunday start, the 81st Indianapolis 500 is finally over. And despite all the chaos, this year's winner was easy to spot. Arie Luyendyk led every practice session in which he ran this month, won the pole position, and was less than a second out of the lead on Monday when the race was stopped due to rain. Tuesday, the Flying Dutchman led for 62 of the race's 200 laps and took the lead for the final time when he drove past teammate...
...occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham?s talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he?s probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...
...designed by McKim, Mead & White. The library was the first major public building in the neo-Italian Renaissance style that was to become de rigueur in formal architecture. It expressed the praiseworthy idea that the citizen is the reason for the state; that public architecture should be generous, bold and finely built...
...turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly...
...market got rocked last month, but it didn't and it hasn't, and now some experts say it won't. It won't tonight, anyway. So they're tipping better. "People were cheap for a while," says waitress Cynthia Cruz. "But now they're getting more and more generous. Things have definitely gotten good...