Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when she came to Three Oaks to teach high school. Winters, they live in a Fifth Avenue apartment. (Their son and daughter are both married.) Summers, they live in a big (22 rooms), comfortable home in Sands Point, Long Island. Donner commutes to the city on the Long Island Rail Road, and from Pennsylvania Station to his office, 25 blocks away. U.S. industry's highest-paid businessman joins rush-hour straphangers on the subway...
...biggest competition, the early favorite Sir Gaylord, was out of the race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza stood bolt upright in the stirrups, desperately trying to hold the stubborn colt back...
...average wage increases of 10.2? an hour for the workers. The proposal pleased neither side in the dispute. The unions had demanded more than twice as much, and management asked why it should give anything at all when so many lines are running in the red. If a rail strike erupts - and the unions will be legally free to strike in 30 days - Kennedy will be put to a labor relations test every bit as formidable as his collision with Big Steel...
...Hard Choice. Besides the rail roads, two other major industries are head ing into labor negotiations: aluminum this month and aerospace next month...
Such a settlement, if it happens, will probably involve some of the devices that the U.S. cautiously broached to its allies three weeks ago: 1) a 13-nation authority to control access on the road, rail, canal and air routes to Berlin; 2) a nonaggression pledge between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations; 3) a joint promise to keep atomic weapons out of the hands of nations not now possessing them; 4) joint committees with East and West German members to discuss mutual problems...