Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children of a vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., Byrne attended Barat College in suburban Lake Forest, then married a Marine Corps pilot. A 1959 crash left her widowed with an 18-month-old daughter, and she plunged into politics. Her first hero was Jack Kennedy. She became secretary-treasurer of his Chicago Citizens Committee, and she worked so hard that even Mayor Daley heard about her. He became her second hero...
Faster than a speeding bullet? Not likely, when Superman's bright blue leotard bulged from a paunch that was bound to blunt the man of steel's airstream in flight. Actually Texas Senator John Tower, 53, never did get airborne, but otherwise the conservative Republican performed nobly in a Superman spoof mounted in Dallas by a drinking club of politicians and newsmen. "I was born to play Superman," acknowledged Tower, flipping his cape for dramatic emphasis...
...mild winter this year coupled with last summer's extreme heat may have left the stainless steel roof prone to extreme changes in temperature, producing the cracks, Arthur Dickerman, project manager of Barkan Contractors, which built Canaday, said yesterday...
...jailer took out a large metal key and opened a heavy steel door. Beyond that were "grungy guys and dingy, dark cells where you have to scrounge for toilet paper. The floor was grimy. The walls had been repainted about 25 times." There were four or five men in their mid-20's arrested on drug charges. After listening to the six-hour-long conversation of one prisoner with the chaplain. Yates was convinced the man had been framed on a rape or child-molesting charge...
...other prisoners got instead were three dill pickle spears, a bologna sandwich, re-warmed canned hash, three-day-old stale cake and cold milk. Not allowed to eat any of the food he'd brought in his backpack, Yates eventually went to sleep on a mattress mounted on a steel lathe platform, without sheets...