Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blame? Jordan's airport control tower at Amman had relayed the King's flight plan-from Amman to Beirut via Syria-as required by the international aviation regulations. But had anyone also obtained the overflight clearance through diplomatic channels required before the King's plane could cross a foreign border? There was an embarrassing silence in Amman. Someone thought the flight had been cleared through U.N. Representative Pier Spinelli. In a prompt denial, Spinelli snapped: "What do you think we are, a travel bureau?" The chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, Lieut. Colonel Ibrahim Othman...
Most of the police's trouble comes from ultra-realistic club initiations and practical jokes. During the War, one club had a students dress up at Lowell House as the enemy. A night watchman recalled the incident. "He was up in the bell tower in a Nazi uniform, giving the salute and shouting around." One of the night watchmen still believes that he was a German spy and is still in prison...
...that she did not menstruate. Another was that when she was ill in prison at Rouen she appeared to have a kidney infection. And if she had something wrong with her temporal lobe, it was most likely a tuberculoma (a "firm, cheeselike abscess"), because when she jumped from the tower of Beaurevoir (variously estimated as 40 to 70 ft. high) she suffered no hemorrhage. Finally, Joan's conscientious executioner complained that even in his hottest fire her entrails would not burn. Dr. Butterfield suggests that this "would not be surprising if there were many calcified lymph glands...
...this time newspapers were smoking with gossip stories that the two potential 1960 presidential rivals were trying to cold-shoulder each other. Rockefeller landed in town from a conspicuously far-from-Nixon upstate campaign swing, got on the phone to Nixon's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Tower, suggested an appointment. Nixon left it to his staff to set up a breakfast date at 7:45 next morning, let it be known that he was delaying his scheduled departure from New York to keep the date. The upshot: Nixon and Rockefeller got together for breakfast (oatmeal for Nixon...
...Negotiate. On the surface, the F.L.N.'s response to De Gaulle's psychological offensive has been uncompromising toughness. In late August the rebels extended the war to France, and in a month of operations struck 180 times against targets ranging from oil dumps to the Eiffel Tower, from cops on the beat to Information Minister Jacques Soustelle...