Word: tower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ivory-Tower Pointy Heads...
...they themselves are just as smart as the people in positions of power. The bureaucrats who enforce school-desegregation guidelines "don't have enough sense to know how to get out of bed in the morning, so they have to write a guideline for us." Intellectuals are "overeducated, ivory-tower folk," or "pointy-headed professors who can't even park a bicycle straight." He says: "Any truck driver'd know right off what to do at the scene of an accident, but you take a college professor, he'd just stand around lookin' and gettin' sick...
...generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower with the legend PORT CITY OF CATOOSA rising above acre after acre of dry, dusty land...
Completion of these three missions without any serious problems would seem to violate the laws of probability. Apollo has 2,000,000 functional parts, 587,000 inspection points, and 47 engines (not including the 42 in Saturn 5 and three more in the escape tower that is jettisoned shortly after launch). Any one of those items conceivably could cause trouble. But NASA nonetheless is optimistically planning for success. Says Metallurgist Thomas Paine, who this week replaced retiring NASA Administrator James Webb: "We have put great stress on the ability of the Apollo 9 crew to operate the LM. All subsequent...
...Camino Real might well have been a tall tower a few blocks from the fashionable Reforma boulevard, with its rooms overlooking Mexico City's great Chapultepec Park and an undistinguished, slightly seedy neighborhood. Instead, its brick-bearing walls rise just five stories high, and the 750 rooms all look inward over landscaped patios with gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times...