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...race also ran into some bulldozing being done in the middle of the course, causing a jam of runners on the one side of the track. Many had already fallen in several pile-ups at the start, when some slower runners tripped in the pack...
...Dilworth had troubles beyond mere political enmities. His reform movement had outlasted its zeal, and scandals began to pile up. He dismissed them at first as "penny ante" stuff. Then he took off on a world tour. Then he came back, post haste, as the scandals grew. One contractor said he had been asked to pay $2,500 to get a city council zoning change. Another bragged that he had paid out $75,000 in payola to city officials to get contracts for the Frankford Elevated. Coin laundry operators said they paid $4,000 to avoid new laundry regulations. Dilworth...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefel ler pressed a lever, and psss-CHUNK! -a pile driver began to hammer in the first pile for a 200-ft. observation tower, the highest structure at the New York World's Fair 1964-65, and part of New-York State's elegant $5,000.000 pavilion, designed by Architect Philip Johnson. The fair, declared the Governor, was going to be a vast success, visited by 70 million people, and yielding "lasting benefits as a magnificent showcase...
With such round figures to deal in, Robert Moses and his aides are inoculated against most of the hair-tearing problems that are bound to pile up between now and opening day - and after. As Moses himself says: "The fair is a funny business, if, indeed, it can be called a business at all. It involves a strange combination of engineering and showmanship. It is part theater, part traveling carnival. part insubstantial pageant and part permanent park...
Harvard scored its second touchdown late in the third period when the second unit drove 80 yards in 13 plays. Ravenel plunged into a goal-line pile up for the six points...