Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucks, dozens of ambulances and police cars, all with their red lights flashing, took up their stations along Runway 13 (pointing 130° southeast), toward the end of its 11,200-ft. stretch. Orbiting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks to lay down a 4-in. pillow of foam on the last 3,000 ft. of the runway...
...wide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 Ibs.) fuel load and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, waiting for foaming operations to be completed. The emergency vehicles on the field could hear the calm spurts of dialogue between Pilot Sommers and the control tower...
...Tower: We're just checking on the runway...
...great square built around the ruins of the St. Giles Church tower. A cultural center, built around a new Guildhall School of Music and Drama, housing a library, art gallery and restaurant. Near the school will be an artificial lake, a theater and concert hall...
Elsewhere on the spiritual and cultural scene, T.S. Eliot delivered the Norton lectures, and plans were made for a new set of Russian bells for the Lowell House tower. The Lampoon, tottering on the financial brink, opened up a cafe, and the next year was reported (in the CRIMSON) to have been "bought out" by the more solvent, although nearly ad-less newspaper...