Word: tower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month he departed from tradition again by announcing plans for a small G.M. car (a foot longer than the West German Volkswagen) two years before it will be introduced. When G.M. opened its new 50-story Manhattan headquarters, Roche quipped that he had learned with "great relief" that the tower was only the twelfth tallest in town...
...cries in the night, cobwebs on the tower stairs-all the exquisitely accumulated gothic horrors-these are the forte of frail, large-eyed women novelists. Joyce Carol Oates, a brilliant writer, offers an updated variation on the genre by taking the American Dream and turning it into a kind of American nightmare...
...hundred miles, a remarkable Air Force camera called IGOR (for Intercept Ground Optical Recorder) brought the shutdown and separation of the first stage, and the ignition of the second stage into full view of the TV audience. Seconds later viewers also saw the dramatic jettisoning of the Apollo escape tower, which arced high above the spacecraft before plummeting back toward earth. Finally, about 10½ min. after launch, out of IGOR's range, Apollo 7, still attached to the second-stage Saturn 4B rocket, glided into an orbit 140 miles high at perigee and 174 miles at apogee -remarkably...
...firm in Dallas before beginning a Justice Department career in 1961. He and his wife still try to get together with the elder Clarks at least once a weekend, although the family rule is that they never talk law. He has never been a prosecutor, and Senator John Tower of Texas argues that he is "psychologically unsuited to the job of law enforcement." In fact, Clark has worked hard for effective enforcement, but he has also shown a consistent concern for civil liberties and has stubbornly insisted upon protecting the rights of the accused...
...three-mile course, which starts at the Boston University Boat House, continues upstream to a point opposite the WBZ Tower. The first event begins at noon, and the last event will end at about...