Word: atop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played a new coronation hymn ("You are the shadow of God"), and unofficial Poet Laureate Lutfali Suratgar read a three-minute ode ("The crown and throne of the King of Kings shone over the world as the sun and the moon shine in the firmament"). Mountaineers planted golden crowns atop the country's 48 highest peaks. Throughout Iran there were 97,000 coronation parties and 630 carnivals. A million dollars worth of fireworks rocketed through the night...
...Wheels. Most such churches begin by taking over a drive-in theater on Sunday morning. Minister, choir and organ perch atop the projection booth or a makeshift stage, and the sermon is piped into cars through window speakers. Among the most impressive of several new churches specially built for drive-in congregations are Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church (designed by Richard Neutra) and the glass-walled Trinity Reformed Church in Kent, Wash., which will accommodate up to 300 people in cars parked outside. Both Garden Grove and Trinity Reformed also serve worshipers seated in the nave...
Three teams are currently atop the Ivy football standings, but only one will be crowing tonight. Yale will fall before vengeful Cornell and the winner of the Harvard-Dartmouth game will sport the last undefeated record in the League...
...Mystery. With the body prepared, the army permitted newsmen and thousands of curious townfolk to file past for a glimpse of the mysterious foreigner, laid out atop a long concrete sink. On into the night, the quiet, stone-faced peasants continued past the body, shining flashlights eerily into the dark, bearded, open-eyed countenance. Even soldiers who moved through the line stood and gaped until a guard barked at them to move along. Two days after his death, Che's fingers were cut off for further fingerprinting, and his body was cremated-an unusual step in a Catholic country...
...college wrestler with the unlikely name of Roone Pinckney Arledge. When he and his ABC production team cover a sports event, seeing it is often better than being there, particularly in the case of golf. At this year's U.S. Open, he mounted 19 color cameras atop a 250-ft. crane, in trees, behind bunkers and in a blimp, which allowed panoramic shots of the entire course, as well as close-ups of snaking putts that seemed to drop right into the viewer's martini. At one point, when Billy Casper and Arnold Palmer were tied...