Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diminutive Kjell Isaksson soared 18 ft. 1 in. Since then the barrier has really been buffeted-including twice more by Isaksson and twice by Bob Seagren of the U.S. (TIME, June 19), a fledgling actor who hopes for a movie career. Seagren has cleared a world record height of 18 ft. 5½ in. Someone, he says, perhaps he himself, will do 19 ft. this year. It might happen at Munich...
However, the Cambridge Planning Board objects to the 18-story building, according to Robert A. Bowyer, director of Planning and Design for the City, on the basis of "location, height, and scale...
Republicans and Administration spokesmen like Connally are already assailing McGovern as a radical whose policies are out of step with the majority of Americans. After the nomination, Connally conferred with the President at San Clemente, then termed McGovern's proposal on welfare reform "the height of fiscal irresponsibility," his defense cuts "a retreat from responsibility," and his world views "all too isolationist in character." To promise...
...workers in a 62-story tower. The damage that the Montparnasse tower has done to Paris' proud profile has caused the largest outcry of all the rebuilding in the city-and helped move Paris Prefect Jean Verdier last week to announce new rules to reduce the permissible height of new buildings in the heart of Paris to 80 feet...
...height of Harvard Square's equivalent of the Parisian May riots, in April of 1970, I came upon a Proustian looking youth contemplating the pastry in the shattered window of the French pastry shop C'est Si Bon on Dunster Street. After many moments of intense scrutiny he decided on a golden croissant which he carefully picked from out of the broken glass...