Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, the 38-year-old Merchandise Mart, the world's largest commercial building, occupies air rights over the former site of the Chicago and North Western terminal. As a national rail hub, Chicago now figures to get a major face lifting because of newer airspace projects. The biggest beneficiary is likely to be the Illinois Central Railroad, which owns air rights above its tracks and right-of-way along Lake Michigan worth at least $185 million. Two of the most imposing structures on the Chicago skyline, the 41-story Prudential Building and the 40-story Outer Drive East apartment...
...staying in front all the way if he does not. The more early speed there is in a race, the better it is for the come-from-behind horses like Dancer's Image who save ground and energy by running far back along the rail until they start to race in earnest for home. For pace handicapping, the Derby field was a textbook case. Forward Pass fought all the way with two speed demons named Kemucky Sherry and Captain's Gig, clearing the way for Dancer's Image to romp the last half-mile in the exceedingly leisurely time...
...trailed the pacesetting favorite (at 8-to-5 odds), Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, by eight lengths. Only then, when the horses straightened out in the stretch, did Dancer's Image really begin to run. With Jockey Ussery merely clucking to him, he rushed up along the rail, caught Forward Pass at the imi. pole and drew away to win by H lengths. The victory was worth $122,600 to Owner Fuller, 10% of which went to Ussery-who collected a similar prize last year aboard Proud Clarion and is the first jockey in 66 years...
...radio every hour the Governor's spots rail against "Outsiders coming in to buy your vote" and then ask the honest Hoosiers to vote to uphold the honor of Indiana and vote for the colorless, rather elderly governor...
Many simply slid down the wet decks into the water. Women screamed for their children. People careened along the corridors toward the lifeboat stations. A man who was helping his fellow passengers, Ian MacDonald, later reported that he worked with one hand grabbing the rail "and the other grasping hands, shoulders, legs and even hair to stop tumbling bodies." As the huge ship started sinking, those who could get aboard lifeboats rowed furiously away. Others tried to swim for it. One crewman jumped in with a child under each arm. In the icy waters, mothers cradled their babies in life...