Word: skyscrapersful
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The skyscrapers that deface the ancient skyline of Jerusalem, the pornography found in its theaters, the garish nightclubs-all are the result of rapid Western industrialization under Israeli rule. Jerusalem must not be treated as just another tourist attraction like New York, Holly wood or the French Riviera. To their...
The blast wave is the main destroyer. Detonation in midair has made radioactive fallout negligible, and people close enough for immediate doses of radiation first succumb to other injuries. More than 250,000 Detroiters were within 2½miles of ground zero; nearly all are now dead. Pedestrians and drivers...
EJ. KAHN, JR. '37 seems to peer through The New Yorker logo's snooty and nostalgic lorgnette at sooty skyscrapers. To Kahn, the late multimillionaire Jock Whitney "epitomized, in a world of increasing egalitarianism, the vanishing patrician. "The era of the robber barons, that period of freewheeling economic exploitation that...
THIS TABLOID SIZE humanity makes wealth easier to distribute vicariously. So long as the rich appear men of the people, we can aspire to luxury. The patrician with the common touch preserves equality of opportunity. At the same time, we like variety in our world of increasing egalitarianism. Equality may...
A bustling tourist haven in the past, the nation's capital (pop. 1.5 million) currently resembles a city under attack. Major hotels are cordoned off and closely guarded. Some skyscrapers have a spooky, battered look; as many as one-third of their windows have been blown out by leftist...