Word: tallest
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...other day White House Gardener Irvin Williams looked proudly at the youngster. "It grew 4 ft. this year," he said, scanning the supple trunk that is planted about 12 ft. from the original Adams elm, which is weak and declining. The old tree was the tallest and grandest on the White House grounds until it was hit by lightning in 1965 and lost one of its huge limbs. Another storm in 1976 battered the tree even more, and now decay has begun to eat at the 4½-ft. trunk. Its leaves, once deep green and dense, are thinning. They...
Wherever Bowie Kuhn has his shirts stuffed after next August, when baseball plans to let its tallest and most erect commissioner go, at least he will be able to cheer at the ball yard again, a sore deprivation these past 14 years. "I can't have a favorite team or a rooting interest," he once said with a sigh. "Sad, isn't it?" For Kuhn...
...International Style, which dominated the architecture of the past generation, gave us bland high-rise boxes, not skyscrapers. The tallest buildings seldom give us a lift. As Chicago Architect Harry Weese observed, these minimal sculptures of maximum size "neglected the ground, the sky and, most of all, the user...
...SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" a few nights ago satirized a gallery of pre-election hopefuls around the country. When it came to the governor's race in California, a photograph of candidate Tom Bradley was accompanied by the quip, "Bradley if elected, will be the nation's tallest governor." The line was a playful poke at the carefully subdued atmosphere in which California will probably make Los Angeles Mayor Bradley America's first Black governor...
DIED. Fazlur R. Khan, 52, Bangladesh-born structural engineer whose ingenious "bundled tube" design was applied to the construction of Chicago's 1,804-ft., 110-story Sears Tower, the world's tallest building; of a heart attack; in Saudi Arabia. Khan's innovative approach brought together narrow, silo-like structures to form a thicker tower, thus doing away with the conventional skeleton frame...