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...SPACE NEEDLE, being constructed as the fair's thematic tower. To stand 600 ft. high, it will be a graceful, wasp-waisted minaret, supported by six steel legs and topped by a four-story disk and a 40-ft. natural-gas torch. Within the slowly turning disk (one revolution an hour) will be a restaurant, an observation deck and a lounge where fairgoers will see a panorama of Mount Rainier, the Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, the Olympic mountains and the city...
Planting the Colors. All over the jubilant country, fireworks displays lit the skies. In the snows at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest (19,340 ft.) peak, a lieutenant of the new Tanganyikan Rifles planted the colors of the new nation and lit a symbolic torch of unity, fulfilling a longtime wish of Julius Nyerere. "We would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro," he once said. "It would shine beyond our borders, giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only...
...past four weeks, the bleakness of the French Sahara 450 miles south of Algiers has been illuminated night and day by a billowing, 450-ft. torch of flame. Visible for 90 miles and roaring like a dozen jetliners at takeoff, the fire is consuming the riches of the recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field at the staggering rate of 30 million cu. ft. a day-enough gas to meet the average daily requirements of Tucson, Ariz...
...iron in his Spanish blood and turned all his attention to sculpture. When he returned to art in the late '20s, his early attempt at painting was left behind, and in its place was a craft he had learned at the Renault plant during World War I: acetylene torch welding. His reconciliation with Picasso followed, and they worked together on some sculptures. Picasso's limitless horizon of idea and sense of imagery liberated Gonzalez from his lingering post-impressionist style; Gonzalez took to the air and escaped from the solid, heavy past of sculpture...
...secession. Madison had no control over Congress, tolerated incompetent subordinates in his Cabinet. A whispering campaign was launched suggesting that he was impotent and that Dolley was unfaithful. Worst of all, Madison suffered the humiliation of having to flee Washington before a British army, which casually put the torch to the White House. At war's end, Madison did not win a single major concession from the British in the settlement...