Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kitchen TV. Builders this week put the fimsaing graces on the 301-room DuPont-Tarlton in downtown Miami. To the north, at Bal Harbour, the 162-room Beau Rivage was about ready to open. Nearing December openings along the seven-mile Miami Beach strip were two 14-story towers-the 538-room Deauville and the 620-room Carillon. In the Deauville, guests can tune in the kitchen from their rooms by means of a closed-circuit TV, see what the cook is whipping up for dinner. The Carillon has a different electronic attraction: four bells in its tower...
...rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...
...really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies for the once accepted gentleman's average of C, seven out of ten intend to go on to graduate school-a process that a previous generation might have condemned as going from one ivory tower to another. "What worries us is this," says one Harvard professor. "In his drive to make the graduate school, the current undergraduate is very serious. But that's the wrong reason for being serious...
...second play of the evening, The King of The Great Clock Tower, is the shortest and least satisfactory of the three. This selection is from a group of works which Yeats called "plays for dancers," an exceedingly condensed and ritualistic form which owes much to the influence of Japanese Noh drama. At first glance, this play would seem to be ideally suited for the purposes of the tiny Poets' Theatre, since it was written for intimate production before a select audience. But the difficulties of the play, which would probably remain obscure in the best of productions...
...foot dummy nicknamed Agatha swung from atop the tower of Moors Hall last night. The effigy was a combination of wire, newspaper, and tennis balls all compiled in a neat, morbid package...