Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDDIE NELOY longed to be a jockey, but he grew up to be 6-ft. 2-in. tall, weighing 220 Ibs. So he kept his feet on the ground and became the most successful horse trainer in the U.S. See SPORT...
...walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated 1,000 lbs. per sq. ft., which is four times as much weight as modern, specially strengthened storage buildings are designed to carry. A few weeks back, a 40-lb. chunk of stone plummeted from the facade to the ground below; now Congressmen and visitors have to walk through a protective wooden tunnel, hardly in keeping with the dignity of the building, to get to the main entrance...
Rutherfurd himself had an intriguing romance as a youth. In 1895 he had been secretly engaged to Railroad Heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose marriage to the Duke of Marlborough was annulled years later by the Sacred Rota of the Roman Catholic Church on the ground that she had loved Rutherfurd but had been forced to marry Marlborough by her domineering mother...
...Thailand's Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, and the occasion was proof of the conviction of his words. As Buddhist monks chanted blessings, the Thai leader stood on a wooden platform overlooking the Gulf of Siam and watched balloons lift a banner from a large stone embedded in the ground. On the stone was the inscription: "U-Tapao Airfield, dedicated to the furtherance of peace through strength and friendship...
...artful dodging of Washington's politicians was little comfort to 31,000 airline employees who are not on strike, but nevertheless are getting neither regular pay nor strike benefits. Many of them looked for temporary work on the ground; TWA Captain Ford S. Blaney-who ordinarily earns $30,000 a year flying a jet-took an $18-a-day job piloting, a gas-eating Chicago taxicab. Nor was there much comfort for some 16,000 passengers of TWA who in most cases were abroad on vacation and found themselves stranded in Europe, unable to get home...