Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation. Whites are fleeing to the suburbs, leaving behind an inner-city population that is 51.3% black. Unemployment among the marginally skilled blacks of the ghettos is three times that of the city's whites. Although it boasts one of the world's busiest airports and a rail network that feeds the Southeast, Atlanta's commuters creep bumper to bumper in rush-hour traffic unrelieved by mass transit. Within minutes of downtown is bucolic countryside?but Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River are badly polluted. Inexorably, Atlanta moves toward repeating the environmental and demographic mistakes of older cities. Neon...
Harvard's worst mishap came in the mile run. Defending champion Jon Enscoe, running in the inside line, fell some 20 yards from the starting line when he was forced into the side rail by runners jockeying for position. His fall was greeted by shouts from the crowd for the officials to "shoot the gun" and recall the race...
Ulbricht and the Russians want West Germany to negotiate directly with East Germany over access to the divided city on the grounds that the autobahns, barge canals and rail lines cross East German territory. But the three Western powers insist that before the two Germanys talk about modalities of access, the Russians must sign an agreement that would be binding on the East Germans. This is one of the central issues that have snarled progress toward a relaxation of tensions in central Europe...
...Wabash Cannonball from St. Louis to Detroit, the Capitol Limited from Washington to Chicago, the Nancy Hanks II from Savannah to Atlanta. Dozens of other great trains, such as the Twentieth Century Limited and the Phoebe Snow between Hoboken, N.J., and Chicago, had already vanished. What remains of rail service may become better than ever, as Amtrak promises rather unconvincingly, but the special mythic quality has been lost on the wind with the vanished steamers...
...Calumet Farms horses are a talented pair. Eastern Fleet has speed and stamina, and Bold and Able has speed and lots of it. Unfortunately for trainer Reggie Cornell. Eastern Fleet, who only runs well when he is on the rail, has drawn post position number eighteen and it is unlikely that the horse will show well...