Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reactor school to help train representatives of friendly nations in skills needed for their own atomic program. Discussions will shortly take place on cooperation with countries planning to build their own research reactors." The U.S. was, he said, about to negotiate with Belgium on the building of an atomic tower reactor in that country; this week detailed negotiations will begin with Canada, and negotiations with other nations will swiftly follow...
Still officially grounded by CAA for impetuously buzzing the control tower at Teterboro Airport, N.J. last January, Radio-TV Favorite Arthur Godfrey nonetheless stepped up before the National Aviation Trades Association meeting at Virginia Beach to accept a diamond-studded silver punch bowl as a token of his contribution toward popularizing aviation. Humbly, he apologized for "getting into a little trouble with the CAA," then beat CAA to the punch by announcing that, come Sept. 16, Pilot Godfrey, who has passed a new physical exam, will have CAA's O.K. to fly again...
...elected board chairman of Botany Mills of Passaic, N.J., which has lost $7,000,000 in the past two years. The president of the Childs Co. restaurant chain, and also of a string of hotels (e.g., Chicago's Edgewater Beach, Manhattan's Plaza and Ritz Tower), Sonnabend first got interested in textiles this year, when he supported Textron's attempt to take over American Woolen. Recent purchases of Botany stock gave him working control of the company along with Philadelphia's H. Daroff & Sons, maker of men's suits. To get Botany on its feet...
Often soaked to the skin, but not miserable, these hardy souls trooped doggedly to the Eiffel Tower (7,000 a day), the Louvre, Montmartre, the Arc de Triomphe and Notre Dame, determined to chalk up an enduring memory or two regardless of weather. It was a sad commentary on the Queen of Cities that her greatest attraction this year appeared to be her famed sewers, whose daily attendance was three times normal. Each day, record rows of tourists lined up at the manhole in the Place de la Concorde to take the tour through the ancient, labyrinthine tunnels in wooden...
...Europe, MGM's Executive Suite was being billed by any other name, largely because the American meaning of the title has no exact equivalent in any European language. Translated examples: in France, The Tower of the Ambitious Ones; in Holland, The Top Man; in Sweden, A Chair Is Vacant; in Italy, Thirst for Power; in Germany, The Schemers...