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Word: lexington (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judicious use of space is indeed essential, the Summit rates high. The $25 million building is tucked in neatly on a 100-ft. by 320-ft. corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, has 800 rooms, 21 stories, and looks compact enough to be stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: First Since the Waldorf | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...yearling sales for a paltry $6,000. Since then, he has won 26 out of 39 races, captured $355,844 in purses, brought $600,000 from his sale to a syndicate. Last year he became the world's fastest pacer by stepping off a 1:54.6 mile at Lexington, Ky., breaking the 1:55 record set in 1938 by his granddad, Billy Direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Butler | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Died. Benjamin Allyn Jones, 78, Calumet Farm's folksy, foxy trainer of six Kentucky Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

KENNETH E. STROUT Lexington, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1961 | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

LEONARD M. LANSKY, PH.D. Lexington, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 21, 1961 | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

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