Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic. Beyond the sea return-twelve miles away by the scale of the scope-a smaller blob of light pinpointed the position where Texas Tower 4,* a man-made Air Force radar island, was riding the storm. Suddenly, silently, the tower echo disappeared. Beyond the sea return there was only the icy Atlantic night. The carrier Wasp was racing into position, a couple of Coast Guard cutters were soon on their...
During 16-month tours of 45 days aboard and 15-day intervals ashore, TT-4's crews learned to live with its continual sway and shake-for the tower was designed to give with the stress of wind and wave. The men also learned to put up with the constant, ear-banging racket of water slapping against resounding steel plate, the whine of generators, the mournful complaint of one of the largest and loudest foghorns in the world. But the food was good, and there was time for recreation. Men fished for cod, killed time in the tower...
Watching all this from the Tribune Tower, the Trib's editors pretend unconcern. "He's got a binful of money," says Trib Editor Don Maxwell, "and so do we. We don't feel any challenge." But if the Tribune doesn't, the Sun-Times's Marshall Field Jr. does. Said he last week: "As of right now, we're in an expansion period...
...year-old National Hotel on Gorky Street, long considered by visitors to be one of Russia's poor best. This was just the beginning. Scheduled to rise beside the onion domes and red walls of the Kremlin is a huge, twelve-story block surmounted by a 20-story tower which, say the Russians, will be the largest hotel in Europe. It will contain 3,400 air-conditioned rooms, four lobbies, two cinemas, a concert hall, a shopping center and a 300-car garage. Structures surrounding the monster hotel will be reconstructed to fit its monolithic architecture. Buildings of "little...
...taxi. Stumbling and bumbling from success to hilarious success, the mink mob is soon established as the despair of Scotland Yard and the hope of innumerable philanthropies-including the police orphanage. At the fade, four suspicious characters, dressed in the Renaissance knickers worn by guards in the Tower of London, can be seen slouching purposefully toward the Crown Jewels...