Word: tower
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Near the tobacco port of Samsun on Turkey's northern coast looms a huge tower-top radar eye that looks across the Black 'Sea and deep into Russia. Operated by General Electric Co. under contract with the U.S. Air Force, the eye tracks test missiles launched 700 miles away at Krasnyy Yar, Russia's version of Cape Canaveral, Fla. A vital source of U.S. intelligence about Soviet missiles, the Samsun radar picked up the 1,000-mile flight of an intermediate range ballistic missile in mid-1955, has detected five IRBM launchings a month over the past...
...existential orbit of Jean-Paul Sartre. During the German occupation Camus fired the morale of the underground with eloquent pieces in his clandestine Combat. After the war he personified, with Sartre, the "engaged" writer, an active intellectual always ready to slide down the bell rope of the ivory tower and answer the fire alarms of left-wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure, I will not strike the faces of my brothers"). Since that...
...Memorial Drive is hidden behind two fences, one of French ash wood staked into the ground; the other of gray brick granite. There is no sign, except a solitary cross located on the bell tower, to indicate the nature, denomination, or purpose of the people gathered within. On one side of the Monastery lies the transit bus yard; on the other, a silent cluster of apartment houses...
...been James Doe." Said Roosevelt: "I learned how to dine with royalty (you had to finish all of your soup before you earned your meat course) and how to find my way to a tower guest room in Windsor Castle without bumbling into the Queen's or someone else's quarters...
Walnut Wood, a 17-room mansion built for Saddle Maker Henry K. Harral, was looked up to in its time as a work of art and the acme of taste. It boasts a tower without, twin parlors within. Elaborate valances edged with silk ball fringe hung at the lancet bay windows, framing Chauncey Ives's most famous statue, his marble semi-nude Pandora. The dining-room walls are paneled in fine, carved walnut. The ceiling of the great hallway is a Gothic arch of wood ribs with gilded bosses representing the heads of such men as Shakespeare, Socrates...