Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperate voice shouted into the telephone: "They are breaking into Xa Loi Pagoda. They are breaking into Xa Loi Pagoda." In the background, gunfire mingled with the confused screams of Buddhist monks and nuns and the clanging alarm of the huge brass gong that hangs in the bell tower of Saigon's largest pagoda. Suddenly the phone connection from the temple went dead...
Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...
Thus did the house organ of one Manhattan firm warn its employees to guard against outbreaks of office thievery, highlighting the petty-crime wave that has been plaguing office buildings from coast to coast. It would seem that few targets appear more attractive than a big-city tower of commerce: lots of victims, lots of loot, with floor after anonymous floor piled up like layer cake. Trouble is, a hard-working secretary too often finds her take-home pay going home in somebody else's pocket...
...furn comb air cond & heat; bit 1959 by Owner Jackie Gleason for $650,000, now avlbl because "my work has me bouncing around too much, pal"; includes 400-rcrd hi fi, grnd piano, elec organ, sht wv, lng wv, FM radios, many TV sets, 60-ft TV-radio antenna tower, rnd bthtub-shwr, 8-ft diamtr rnd bed with rnd sheets & rnd blnkts, 2 rnd bars (1 professional-sized), rnd card rm, pool tbl, and comfrtbl 7½-rm house near by for living...
...spring he committed $20 million to six major high-rise developments in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, and earmarked $100 million more to be spent in the next five to seven years. Included in the plans: a giant business center containing twin 15-story office buildings, a tower of 100 apartments and a 250-car parking lot. Before a shovel turned, Schlesinger had leased 60% of the space...