Word: pyramidal
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...State and Egyptian President Sadat met the press after three hours of talks, the cordiality between the two men was plainly visible. "I hope to see you soon," said Kissinger in farewell. Replied Sadat: "You are welcome always." Then, after lunch, the Secretary was driven off to see the pyramids. Once again a crowd of shoving, shouting photographers dogged his steps. After vanishing inside the Great Pyramid, he finally emerged and waved to the crowd below. "Henry's looking it over," said one member of his staff. "He wants to build one for himself...
...isolate Watergate as a separate problem," says Aaron M. Kohn, director of the metropolitan crime commission in New Orleans. "It's the peak of a pyramid that covers all 50 states. All of the ingredients of Watergate are merely a reflection of things we have tolerated too long throughout the political system." Says Fred Hand Sr., a Georgia farmer and banker who was speaker of the Georgia house for eight years: "Anyone who has run a political campaign on a state level knows that if everything he did were uncovered he could be put on a chain gang...
...year delay wreaked havoc on the Library Corporation's original goals. The general inflationary trend, combined with the skyrocketing increase in building costs, whittled the $27 million project to half its original size. Architect I.M. Pei designed a museum sheltered under an 85-foot high truncated glass pyramid, attached to a five-story semicircle housing the actual archives, the Kennedy Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School of Government...
...effect occurs primarily inside the pyramid, but the same force is also said to emanate from the pyramid...
...firm scientific evidence exists to prove or dis prove pyramid power. Laymen who experiment may be frustrated because precision is required. Pyramids must be aligned precisely on magnetic north. Being close to windows, radiators, fluorescent lights, radios, TV sets and other appliances can queer the effect. Says McLuhan somewhat pessimistically: "If you do all that, it may or may not work. If you don't, it certainly won't work...