Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kill people, you kill people," shouted the unexpectedly small crowd of demonstrators at the Pentagon Monday as security coordinators atop the huge headquarters of the Defense Department looked down upon them in silence...
...refugees who stayed on in Hué found spots on the grassy banks of the Perfume River if they were lucky, in fetid vacant buildings if they were not. "Highway 1 is the setting for this Asian Grapes of Wrath,"' reported TIME Correspondent David DeVoss. "Some families ride atop trucks, others are jammed as many as five to a Honda, but most of them walk. Exhaustion, hunger and heat are not the only enemies they face. Land mines, carefully planted each night by the North Vietnamese, take their daily toll in suffering...
What is better than a good businessman? Answer: a good lucky businessman. Charles Bluhdorn, the highly creative and sometimes abrasive chairman of Gulf & Western Industries, is just that. In the 1960s he built G. & W. into a prosperous conglomerate, piling one acquisition atop another, from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer...
...score of U.S. destroyers and guided-missile frigates and cruisers had been shelling North Vietnamese positions north and south of the DMZ. Then, last week, the North Vietnamese responded. At least three enemy MIGs swept over the destroyer U.S.S. Higbee. During two passes, they landed a bomb square atop the ship's magazine, causing an explosion that blew out a portion of the superstructure. One MIG was shot down, but four sailors were wounded and the Higbee was forced to withdraw to Danang for repairs...
After lunch, a guide took us to the bandits' staging camp at Gherora. Despite the 105° heat, the village was thronged with people who had come to see the dacoits and the surrender ceremonies. In a tiny room atop one of the houses we found Madho Singh. A tall, lithe figure, he was dressed in a police uniform and carried an automatic rifle. Asked if he had qualms about surrendering, Madho Singh said: "Whatever we say we'll do, we go ahead with it, even if it means death for us. Sometimes we are scared of jail...