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Last week San Francisco and Oakland commemorated the bridge's half-century with a modest parade and reminiscences of the rise of the world's longest steel high-level span. Said John Kergel, 79, who worked on the project that took three years and 29 lives: "It was the Depression, guys would do anything for a job. We took a lot of chances. But it paid off." As for comparisons between the gray lady and her golden sister, one official said, "They're both beautiful bridges. What's important is that during the Great Depression people had the vision...
...from his palm, slowly. "The neglect of this bridge is shameful," he said. "Dirt holds moisture, and moisture is what rots wood. That's the whole reason these bridges are covered -- to keep the wood dry. With the right care, covered bridges can last hundreds of years, longer than steel and concrete...
...they are and so they will be, touring 60 cities in four months with an international ensemble of young skaters. Combining the invention of the Broadway musical, the grace of ballet and the speed of steel sliding across a smooth surface, they are zestfully -- and often wittily -- redefining that tired old branch of show business, the ice revue...
...owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter how dispiriting. And when the unionists cry out for protection from foreign trade to save their jobs, they run smack into the ire of those very same farmers, who know that tariffs on shoes or steel may mean further market losses for soybeans and wheat...
...shrewd, the three Reichmann brothers -- Albert, 56, Paul, 54, and Ralph, 52 -- have quietly built a dominion estimated to be worth $18 billion since they fled Austria with their parents during World War II. With the savings they were able to bring out, the family bankrolled construction and steel ventures in Toronto, eventually moving into real estate speculation. In 1977 Wall Street hardly noticed when Olympia & York, the development firm founded by the brothers, picked up eight Manhattan skyscrapers at a distress-sale package price of $400 million during New York City's fiscal crisis. Today those buildings are valued...