Word: towered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks ago, the 8,000 residents of Chicago's Sandburg Village, a nine-tower apartment complex long considered one of the last rental havens on the city's elegant near North Side, discovered that theirs was about to become one of the largest condominium conversions ever. The buildings had been sold to a development group for $110 million. Says Barbara Molotsky, a tenant who pays $370 a month for her one-bedroom apartment and may have to hand over $50,000 to buy it: "I don't want to buy, but there just aren...
...Thomas Clarke of the N.Y. State Police said yesterday a preliminary investigation conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration indicates that Stetson apparently began his descent too soon when he mistook a marker beacon 16 miles outside the airport for the final landing tower...
...different from Newton. The 17th century master had noted what seemed to be a remarkable coincidence: gravity acted in the same way on all bodies, regardless of their mass. That could be shown by an apocryphal experiment of Galileo's in which objects of different weight dropped from the Tower of Pisa were said to strike the ground at virtually the same instant (any difference being due to air resistance). Einstein offered an explanation. Acceleration caused by gravity, he said, is indistinguishable from that caused by other forces. I That proposition is Einstein's 1 principle of equivalence. As usual...
...myriad of complicated details were sorted out for this week's visit of China's Teng Hsiao-p'ing. There, too, strategy was being mapped for steering the President's budget through Congress, fighting inflation and rallying support for SALT. The office is a control tower for the Administration, and much of the credit for the improving management of Jimmy Carter's White House these days is being given to the tower's occupant: Anne Wexler...
...East Germany tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near Münster. Newspapers carried debates on the accuracy of the series and whether a fictional version of Hitler's ultimate atrocity should be shown...