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...recruited into Margaret Mead's life was an intense, sometimes perilous privilege. Her cluttered sixth-floor office in the tower of the American Museum of Natural History, her headquarters for nearly 50 years, often became a stage where doors slammed and tears fell copiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Most Famous Anthropologist | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...year-old man named Lee Harvey Oswald crouched in a drab sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository Building as President Kennedy's motorcade passed below...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...these theories are true, a conspiracy had to exist. Thompson said that there were three shooter locations: the sixth-floor window of the Depository building, a grassy terrace by which the motorcade passed, and the roof of a close by government building...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...Bubu landed on his feet, many fellow felines have been less fortunate. Taking the law into their own hands, ailurophobes around West Germany have launched a campaign to kill more cats than curiosity itself. Some have shot the creatures with air pistols or flung them to the ground from sixth-floor balconies. Others have poisoned, strangled, axed or blinded cats. Their rationale: cats gobble up plants, scratch the paint off cars and even startle innocents by peering at them through windows. As a result, an estimated 300,000 cats, perhaps 10% of West Germany's feline population, were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Kitty Cornered | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...responsible for advising the Skylab Coordination Center at NASA headquarters in Washington whether anything should be done to change Skylab's trajectory. The final decision was up to NASA Administrator Robert A. Frosch, aided by his Skylab task force director, Richard G. Smith, who worked in a guarded, sixth-floor NASA office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Skylab's Spectacular Death | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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