Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening of a new office building that is strange even for Hollywood: a 13-story smogscraper, round as a record. On the street below, Jane Russell, Connie Haines, Dick Haymes, Gordon MacRae and Tennessee Ernie Ford strolled over a red carpet into the $2,000,000 reinforced-concrete tower as the crowd cheered and loudspeakers blared...
...blue wallet stuffed with prepaid coupons for every service he will need, down to the last cab, gondola ride, sales tax and tip. With each book of FIT coupons comes a neatly typed, individual itinerary that plots each move and ticks off every landmark, e.g., the Leaning Tower of Pisa is 13 feet off center because of the "unequal setting of the foundation." The FIT customer pays up to 25% for extra services over and above the retail cost of hotel rooms and travel tickets, though the ordinary tourists pays nothing extra for hotel bookings an rail tickets. "The company...
...night of March 14 the sky over Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. was vacuum-clear with stars thick beyond it. At 1145 a.m. a slender Aerobee rocket rose from a launching tower, the bright flame of its exhaust dwindling to a spark and disappearing among the crowding stars. Then, when the rocket was 60 miles up, a new star bloomed in the sky, brighter than the planet Venus. Swiftly it grew, spreading in ten minutes to four times the diameter of the moon, and shedding half the full moon's brilliance. At this stage the glowing spot...
When the U.S. DC-6 bearing Secretary of State John Foster Dulles appeared over Don Muang Airport one afternoon last week, Thailand's Prime Minister Pibulsonggram was still fretfully edging his way through Bangkok traffic in his Ford Thunderbird. Informed by the airport tower, the pilot of the Dulles plane circled for seven minutes until the Prime Minister thundered onto the field. Bangkok was a courtesy call for Dulles: there were no critical problems to be ironed out. After he departed the next day (Pibulsonggram and the Thunderbird were late for the goodbye) only three of the eight Thai...
...widow of a prince he recently killed "in my angry mood at Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has him murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make...