Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least seven other East German refugees made it across last week. One man jumped from a rooftop to an elevated railway signal tower, then scrambled across the tracks to leap 20 feet into the waiting arms of West Berlin cops. Another suffered eight fractures when he stepped on a Communist land mine on the border, nevertheless crawled 13 hours through forests to reach the West...
...nation only by beer and the Braves. Now, thanks to Ralph Votapek, we have added a third and very important B to our national honors-Beethoven." He proclaimed Ralph Votapek Day and announced that Votapek's name would appear in neon lights on the city-hall tower...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefel ler pressed a lever, and psss-CHUNK! -a pile driver began to hammer in the first pile for a 200-ft. observation tower, the highest structure at the New York World's Fair 1964-65, and part of New-York State's elegant $5,000.000 pavilion, designed by Architect Philip Johnson. The fair, declared the Governor, was going to be a vast success, visited by 70 million people, and yielding "lasting benefits as a magnificent showcase...
Dutiful Flying. Everything went right from the beginning. Sigma 7 bobbed into a beautifully circular orbit, and calm, cool Navy Commander Walter Marty ("Wally") Schirra, 39, was in buoyant good humor. "Sayonara!" he cried when the escape tower separated, and soon he reported "all systems green and go." Then he settled down to cheerful, competent and dutiful space flying. He watched the instruments closely and talked with each control station as he passed near it. Like the other astronauts, Schirra ran into trouble with the water boil-off system of his space suit, and its temperature became so high...
...spit of land overlooking Manila Bay, a glistening, 205-ft. tower spewed steam one day last week-and the technicians who watched could hardly have been more excited if they had just launched a moon rocket. The tower is the heart of the first oil refinery in southeast Asia to be controlled and managed by Asians. Sprawled across 230 acres 22 miles south of Manila, the Filoil refinery will ultimately turn out 17,000 barrels of high-octane gasoline and other products daily. "This," said Filoil President Ramon V. del Rosario. "is a dream come true...