Word: rimmed
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...view from the apartment buildings that rim Chicago's lakefront is a pleasant, peaceful thing: the streams of cars on Lake Shore Drive, the narrow strips of green park, the rock-ribbed beaches, the glistening lake with its splashing bathers, and, in the distance, a crisp sail. From his 15th floor apartment, A. Kirk Besley, 53, superintendent of Chicago's Norwegian American hospital, often passed the time at his picture window studying the scene through his binoculars...
...exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked away. Behind him, four cars (out of 33 entered) swirled into a slow-motion mixup...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...perched on the rear platform of a cable car and shouted: "You have more happiness and gaiety here than any place in the world." He teetered on the concrete border of a Union Square flower bed and praised "one of the greatest civilizations of the world, here on the rim of the Pacific by the Golden Gate." He shook hands in a mixed Negro and Japanese neighborhood, wore a sombrero and scrape and cried "Viva" in a Latin American community, sat at a green-topped table with 16 Chinatown moguls...
...summary dismissal of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb by Jordan's King Hussein, the rioting on Cyprus, the general state of things on the Mediterranean rim, seemed to have aroused Britain to its suddenly perilous position in the Middle East. Reports of Egyptian officers training in Poland, of heavy shipments of Soviet arms brought renewed doubts that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well...