Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s C-5 Galaxy military transport measures barely 10 yds. shorter than a football field, sports a tail assembly as tall as a six-story building, and has a cargo compartment that is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight off the side of North Carolina's Kill Devil Hill sand dune. And it flies. At Georgia's Dobbins Air Force Base one morning last week, following an overnight postponement because of last-minute technical problems, the first C-5 lifted gently off the runway for a 94-minute test. Aside from some...
There they stand in the landscape, great, granite figures-some 13 feet tall and weighing up to 2½ tons. Their hollow gaze seems to follow the visitor; their enigmatic expressions change from minute to minute in the shifting sunlight. "When you look at one, you know it represents someone-someone to whom you could give a name," says Archaeologist Roger Grosjean, 47, the man responsible for bringing the monuments to light. Corsica's sculptured menhirs (from Breton men-stone, and hir-long) are among the oldest monumental statues in Europe. Says Grosjean: "For the origin of sculpture, these...
...tall, well-dressed man walked into the police station in Middletown, Conn. "I lost two friends by assassination in the past five years," he said. "I want to do everything I can to encourage people to turn in their guns." Then William Manchester, 46, author of The Death of a President, handed over his own .45-cal. automatic pistol to the officer on duty...
...organist began to play again. Gladys Roberts and the Wallace Girls continued to move up and down the aisles. The number of dollar bills they received was impressive. The tall, thin man in charge of the money stood in his corner separating the ones from the fives. He threw a toy $50 bill on the floor...
...Hitchcocked Hitchcock. Rosemary's Baby, a pointless and supremely mediocre melodrama, provoked the same now-customary response: one New York paper assumed confidently that Hitchcock would have been proud to have made it and, on nearer horizons, Boston After Dark's very own Deac Rossell (a nice tall boy who smiles a lot) decided to write a paramount press release calling Rosemary's Baby "worthy of the dean of film thrillers, Hitchcock." I get mad when I read this kind of nonsense. If Deac Rossell wants to lay his reputation on the line by joining a chorus echoing this most...