Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...
...wide-angle lenses stare day and night at the sky. Each is linked to a filter that makes it blind to all light except a special kind that comes from the fluorescence of nitrogen or oxygen. If light of this unusual sort comes down from the sky, the rooftop apparatus at Los Alamos will ring an alarm that will sound around the world. It will mean that some nation has attempted a secret bomb test in space-and has been caught...
...crescendoed. Campbell found that his green tin hat, with "TIME-LIFE" in white letters on front, proved to be a passport. In their polite Japanese way, police and demonstrators alike stopped to clear a path for him as he crossed back and forth through the embattled lines. From a rooftop vantage point in Premier Kishi's compound, which was conveniently across the street from the Diet, Campbell had a bird's-eye view of the major fighting-when not ducking flying rocks and spurting fire hoses. Working near by in a sector where empty soda bottles were...
...24th anniversary present ( The Threepenny Opera has been running there since 1955); earlier he had built the White Barn Theater in Westport, Conn. To help himself and his wife get around the city, he bought a Mercedes-Benz 190, had it equipped with a meter and a rooftop light, coughed up another $17,000 for a hackie's license and medallion. Then he hired a driver who ferries the Schweitzers around and spends the rest of his time hacking on his own (he and the boss split the fares fifty-fifty, giving the cabbie 5% more than he would...