Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wearing a blue shirt and chinos for an outing with 18 young friends of Tricia, David and Julie at Camp David, where there was no pomp amid rustic circumstance, Charles expertly potted three doubles in a row at skeet. "He's great," said the admiring David. Atop the 555-ft. Washington Monument, Charles was exhilarated by the view of the capital under a full summer moon and impulsively suggested: "Let's walk down." While Anne determinedly led Tricia and Julie toward the elevator, the prince, one hand tucked jauntily in a pocket, paced David down the 898 steps...
...crescendo last week as the last U.S. troops swept happily back into South Viet Nam. The President took to television for an unprecedented live, hour-long foreign-policy conversation with three network anchormen. He issued a 7,000-word White Paper justifying the Cambodian operation. This came atop public and private hard sells by Vice President Spiro Agnew and other White House and Cabinet officials; among their efforts was a four-hour briefing of television executives and publishers that produced a 49-page transcript...
Last week, in an unannounced move, a life-size bust of the dictator was installed atop his grave. Curious crowds flocked to Red Square to file past the first public display of Stalin in the Kremlin since...
Last week's Soyuz shot was notable for one innovation. It was the first manned nighttime launch by either the Soviet Union or the U.S. The Russians also gave wide publicity to the shot, releasing films of Soyuz atop a Vostok rocket on its prd shortly before launch. One photograph showed three service towers retracted like the unfolded petals of a gigantic flower...
...brand of pollution: cigarette smoke. But now one nightclub chanteuse at least is trying to clear the air. Felicia Sanders, sometimes known as "the American Edith Piaf," recently introduced It's a Drag to patrons of Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, an elegant gin-mill-in-the-sky atop the RCA Building. Though the customers habitually puff away until the air turns blue, Sanders' smoky boogie had them snuffing out their cigarettes in alarm...