Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest in a succession of spectacular failures (including, besides Hartford, the collapse in 1978 of the snow-laden auditorium roof at the C.W. Post Center in Brookville, N.Y.), the Kemper disaster sent worried architects scurrying back to study their latest designs. There is widespread fear that the reputation of the profession is eroding-and with some reason, according to former AIA President Elmer Botsai. His successful San Francisco firm specializes in correcting other architects' errors. Although workmanship and materials are often faulty, he says, "fundamental design failure" is almost always involved. Echoed one worried AIA conventioneer in Kansas City...
Coastal upsets Spectacular Bid in the Belmont
...that has produced so many dominant horses is that, for reasons science cannot explain, Bold Ruler has proved to be unusually adept at what breeders call "stamping his get," i.e., passing on his strong points to his descendants. Bold Ruler is the sire of Secretariat, the grandsire of Spectacular Bid, the great grandsire of Seattle Slew...
...retired to stud much of the finest American bloodstock. "Today," says Lucien Laurin, trainer of Secretariat, "it's easier to get better breeding because it's more of an open breeding market." The reason: the proliferation of commercial breeders and the widespread syndication of top stallions. The owners of Spectacular Bid, as well as Seattle Slew, certainly are not members of racing's Establishment...
...raced out by the end of their two-year-old campaigns and retired. The breeders of others now pick and choose among rich purses scattered across 15 states rather than risk everything for show money in the Triple Crown events in a year when a really fine horse like Spectacular Bid turns up. In 1948 there were 696 stakes and feature races, only nine with purses of $100,000 and up. In 1977 there were 1,687, and 93 superrich purses to share. Says Trainer Woody Stephens, who developed Cannonade: "Why run my horse against a 1-to-10 shot...