Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the golden sands of its Mediterranean shore to the olive groves and pine trees of its eastern hills, the most characteristic feature of Beirut's skyline is the apartment house. Row upon row of multistoried slabs stand in brightly colored ranks, graced by rooftop gardens, sunken black marble bathtubs with solid gold taps, and airy, glass-walled rooms that look out on full-sailed dhows plying the routes once used by Phoenician triremes. Only trouble is that thousands of the apartments are empty...
Meanwhile, the East-West barrier in Berlin itself exploded with new violence. Now, for the first time, German police on both sides were exchanging gunshots as well as curses and tear gas. Each day brought new incidents. One evening, two young East Berliners on an apartment-house rooftop tried to escape by jumping into the net of West Berlin firemen on the street below. But East Berlin cops dashed up to head them off, began shooting. West Berlin police fired back, wounding a Communist cop. Then, from the darkness above, a body came hurtling down; one of the escapers...
...snatched up and "resettled" in small isolated towns in the interior for "work education." Reason: they were suspected of planning to escape to the West or of encouraging others to do so. Hordes of uniformed "Free German Youth" youngsters were sent out to inspect every East German's rooftop television and F.M. aerial, tear down those that were pointed toward the stations of Wrest Berlin or West Germany. "Anyone listening to Western radio or television broadcasts is a traitor," cried an editorial in Leipzig's Sächsische Zeitung...
...stroll away from the Atlantic surf. But Patterson could hardly have cared less. "This is a vacation spot," he said. "But I'm not here for fun." Sixty-five miles northward, at Palm Beach's Sea Breeze motel, Challenger Johansson took his turn in an open-air, rooftop training ring, and dunked himself in a nearby, palm-girdled swimming pool. "Ah," said Ingo, "this is the perfect place...
...reason for Cole's bearishness about earth is what he calls the "biodetonation": the explosive population increase which, he believes, will turn the earth's entire surface into a single city within a few generations and require the cultivation of high-yielding algae on every rooftop to feed the elbow-to-elbow masses. But even more dangerous than biodeto-nation is "sophidetonation": the ever-quickening accumulation of scientific knowledge. One likely effect of sophidetonation, says Cole, is a war fought with megaton or perhaps gigaton* nuclear weapons, and although this might serve as a drastic check on biodetonation...