It was one of those events that you can never forget witnessing. A skyscraper was going up. Hundreds of people paused daily to glance up at it.

One day they watched as a giant metal beam was raised to be placed high on the enormous steel skeleton of the skyscraper.  And then something terrifying occurred. As the girder came near, a workman leaned out from the sixteenth floor to seize it.  The spectators gasped as he lost his balance and fell. Fortunately, he was able to clutch the end of the giant beam that was being raised with both his arms and legs.   

The ground crew stopped the hoisting engine so the man could continue to hold on, but the man's weight situated on one end began to tilt the beam to a vertical position, which would surely cause him to lose his grasp and fall to a his d…