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...Apparent sore spot on the massive (116-ft. wing span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...
...Awerman, an eleven-year-old from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion, 49; his mother's, 54), drew a 20-day jail sentence and a chance to work out his time...
Last week Coach Dougherty drove into the same old mousetrap-a fare picked up at midnight in the Loop, an arm around the neck and a razor at the throat. Dougherty turned over $30, all he carried. But the razor wielder wildly demanded more money, sprawled into the front seat, pulled a pistol, and said, "I'm going to kill you anyway." Figuring "by then I had run out of chances," Dougherty grabbed the pistol and killed his fare, a 23-year-old dope addict...
Nearly a quarter of a century had passed since a new office building rose in Chicago's Loop, where the first skyscraper* was built 72 years ago. This week, amid the Loop's smoke-stained, weather-worn monuments to another era, the Inland Steel Co. dedicated a crisp, tall, gleaming home office that goes a step or two ahead of almost every other office building...
Resting on steel piles that extend 85 ft. through mud and clay to bedrock underlying the Loop, Inland's main building rises 19 stories, with thin, stainless steel mullions retaining the 10-ft.-tall green-tinted glass windows. Joined to it is the windowless service core, towering 80 ft. above the main structure, and sheathed in small panels of dull stainless steel. Architecturally, it is as striking as the building it serves. Unlike its street-crowding neighbors, the Inland structure is set back far enough to provide a small plaza...