Word: atop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result is a wave of construction projects resembling so many concrete-and-steel layer cakes. Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden is part of a development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
...Atop windblown Mount Herzl, a dozen beacons-one for each of the original tribes of Israel-illuminated the night sky over Jerusalem. At the floodlit Wailing Wall, Orthodox Jews, with their black hats and beards, linked arms, danced and sang with rugged paratroopers wearing red berets and toting Uzi submachine guns. In the streets of Jerusalem, thousands of young sabras frolicked away the day and night to the hypnotic strains of the hora, then tumbled exhausted onto sidewalks and park grass to sleep. As the highlight of the biggest military parade in Israel's history, marking its 20th year...
Since the air war can only be waged with outside aid, Biafra's Oxford-educated leader, Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 34, is understandably outraged at the Russians and Egyptians. When I met Ojukwu on the evening of the Umuahia air raid in his closely guarded stucco house atop a hill outside town, he spoke of the "hot and cold flashes that go through my mind" when he sees the air raid victims. "Viewing their mangled remains on a mortuary slab," he said, "I feel anger with those who made devastating weapons available to primitive men. I even find myself...
...city authorities pursued an elusive band of cutthroats and vandals. Ominous reports began to pour in sometime after 3 a.m. They told of drunken youths driving around in a Black Cadillac, of suggestive noises from within the confines of the Harvard Lampoon, and of cloaked figures roaming about atop the Lampoon building...
...Matriculated Mob." The man whom the radical students singled out as the symbol of all that is bad in West Germany is a tall, silver-haired publisher who commutes between his six homes in Europe in a private jet, directs his $200 million press empire from atop a glass skyscraper directly alongside the Wall in West Berlin. Springer, 55, is sternly antiCommunist, assertively German, and a strong supporter of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. He owns 15 magazines and newspapers, including the popular Bild-Zeitung (literally, picture paper), that account for 31% of West Germany's circulation...