Word: 107th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard football team picked a leader on the other side of the line yesterday, electing defensive tackle Chuck Burst as its 107th captain...
Some 500 diners at Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, finished their meals by candlelight and rode to the ground on a service elevator that was served by an emergency generator. But 35 people were stranded for the night on the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. After a free breakfast provided by the building's management, half of them walked down the stairs to the ground, while the others waited until the elevators began operating again Thursday afternoon...
Generally, wise visitors will avoid celebrity shows and concentrate on the food. At Windows on the World (107th floor of the World Trade Center), that might be difficult; the food is excellent, and the view is one of the most spectacular in the world. Reservations are normally required two weeks in advance, but visitors should go anyhow and sit in the Hors d'Oeuvrerie, where they can have sushi, steak tartare and other nibbles. Other restaurants combining fine food and wonderful decor: Café des Artistes (67th St. just off Central Park West) and Maxwell's Plum (64th...
...that sum, says Denning, Neptune offers "a real first-class service. The crew is at full dress, the ship is pointed into the wind, and all the engines are dead." The flag is lowered to half-mast, and the captain reads Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" (the 107th Psalm is optional), while a black-draped crew member sprinkles the loved one's remains into the Pacific from a ceramic Grecian urn. For an additional $250, as many as 20 relatives and friends can attend the scattering from the deck of Neptune's bar-and-galley-equipped yacht...
Pierce himself was a Kent State student in 1970, and was mobilized as a member of the Guard's Troop G, 107th Armed Cavalry, when Ohio governor James A. Rhodes ordered the Guard on campus...