Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eighth race, coupled each with five out of the eight horses running in the ninth. When No. 1 took the eighth, they stood a better than even chance on the ninth, but as it turned out, their victory was only accidental: the favorite tripped, causing a four-horse pile-up that left the way clear for Historic Value to jog unchallenged to the finish line...
...considerable doubt only a few years ago about whether the line would keep on sailing. To qualify for continued Government subsidies, Lykes was faced with the necessity of raising $250 million to modernize its fleet, or the alternative: getting out of the shipping business. "We could have made a pile of dough by liquidating," says Turman, "but finally we decided that if any American shipping line could make a go of it, we could." To raise the money, family-owned Lykes went public in 1958, though the family still owns 64% of the stock and fills nearly...
Part of the Harvard strategy will be to pile up a big lead in today's field events. John Bakkensen, who set a University record with a discus throw of 173 ft., 8 1/2 in. in Saturday's win over Dartmouth, is the prohibitive choice for first place in that event. Teammate Bill Pfeifer will battle Northeastern's Carl Wallin for second...
...sculptor. Isn't it silly?" he said, but he didn't mean it. To him, his style of sculpturing is unalloyed joy, and all around Rube Goldberg's studio the happy evidence is beginning to pile up. There is a balloon-breasted Lady Godiva in plasteline - being leered at by her horse. Under a sign reading PLASTIC SURGERY sit three miniature patients in desperate cosmetic need: a man and wife with Jimmy Durante schnozzles and a hopeful-looking toucan. They all look very much like comic-strip characters in three dimensions. Which is just what they...
...four-engined Douglas DC-7 skimmed at 140 m.p.h. across the desert sands near Phoenix, Ariz., clipped a pile of railroad ties that sheared off its propellers and landing gear. Next, the left wing smashed into a 25-ft. mound of dirt. Then the right slammed into three poles, which sliced off its tip. The fuselage hurtled onward, hopscotched over a 55-ft. hill, skidded to a shattering stop and burst into flames. Tense U.S. aviation experts broke into grins of delight; rarely had they witnessed such constructive destruction...