Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invited to the capital by Republican Congresswoman Katharine St. George, Mitchell starred at press conferences, explained his code to a crowded meeting of the far-right Human Events Political Action Conference, found other interested listeners in conservative Republican Senators John Tower of Texas and Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater was particularly entranced. The Newburgh program was "as refreshing as the clear air of Arizona," the Senator declared. "I would like to see every city adopt the plan. I don't like to see my taxes paid for children born out of wedlock." Goldwater also took the trouble to deny...
...architect of her own literary monument, Katherine Anne Porter is the most sparing of designers. The graceful, towering spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944). Last week at 71, still pretty, witty and as talkative as ever ("It's always been my sin"), Katherine Anne Porter announced that she had placed the massive capstone of her distinguished career: a 160,000-word novel, her first, scheduled for spring publication by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Sighed Author...
...flowers and five umbrella-shaded clusters of chairs for notables. For six days, Witness leaders expounded the faith over 192 loudspeakers, drenching every cranny of the stadium with inspirational sound. Most often at the microphone was Nathan Homer Knorr, 56, of Brooklyn, who is third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, official title of this 77-year-old made-in-America sect. With sweeping gestures and stabbing voice, he gave familiar Witness Biblicism some new amplification...
Before long the moonlight is glinting off Peck's jaw as he leads a crew of ruffians up an unclimbable rock face in a pelting rain. Suddenly he slips. In best White Tower tradition, the man who grabs Peck's wrist is his blood enemy, a dour Cretan guerrilla (Anthony Quinn) who has sworn to kill him when the war is over. Quinn's eyes flash. Will he let Peck fall? Not, the viewer may be sure, while there are still old war movies left to anthologize...
...president of Restaurant Associates, quiet, casual Jerome Brody, 38, has cornered a big helping of Manhattan's high-priced eating trade with a chain of pretentious feeding places (the Four Seasons, Forum of the Twelve Caesars, the Tower Suite). Now Brody is bent on another exotic venture: operation of a first-class French resort in, of all places, France. Pending approval by French authorities, Restaurant Associates plans to buy for $3,000,000 the Hotels Golf and Chicago in Divonne, France, near Geneva. Brody should have little trouble financing the deal: the Forum of the Twelve Caesars alone...