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Except for the barking of stray dogs, the Inlet is a quiet neighborhood, not because of its tranquillity but because of its gaps -- vacant lots where houses were razed and replaced by fields of pink clover, Queen Anne's lace and beer-bottle shards. Here and there are anachronistic gestures to elegance -- carved laurels in a window casement, a Victorian turret, delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald...
ABOUT this time a year ago, when it looked like Lloyd Bentsen would be the next vice president, other representatives started calling him Senator Leland. He laughed when they did, knowing he would have to defeat two dozen other contenders for the vacant Senate seat. Yet, he stood an excellent chance, and his colleagues knew...
Nothing seemed amiss when Captain Alfred Haynes, 59, a 33-year United Airlines veteran, lifted the three-engine DC-10 into sunny skies over Denver for a two-hour flight to Chicago. The airliner, configured to hold 287 passengers, had only five vacant seats. Since United had designated July as "picnic month," the eight flight attendants served mini-baskets of chicken sticks, crackers and cheese...
...parents for the Soviet Union in 1931, his native West Side Chicago neighborhood babbled with Yiddish and Polish. Now Spanish fills the air around Humboldt Park, Murray F. Tuley High School has become Jose De Diego Academy, and the place where Stolar's home once stood is a vacant lot. But to Stolar, 77, back last week after 58 years in the U.S.S.R., it felt familiar. "It's wonderful," he said. "I feel 60 years younger...
...Thursday, Communist and union officials held an emergency closed-door meeting aimed at breaking the impasse. Determining how to fill the 33 vacant seats was at the top of the agenda. One proposal called for a new vote on those seats in the second round of elections. But many union supporters argued that they should remain unfilled...