Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep in the Sahara last week, the French set off a bomb atop a tower and then studied the effects on rows of uniformed manikins lined up in parade formation and on some 1,000 mice, sheep and goats tethered around the site, including a lamb born moments after the blast. It was France's third nuclear test...
...instrument traffic approach for La Guardia Airport in i min., 51 sec. And at that speed, at an altitude of 5,400 ft., it collided with TWA's Super Constellation Flight 266, from Dayton and Columbus, approaching La Guardia Airport under instructions from the La Guardia tower...
Meanwhile, La Guardia tower was following the Constellation on its radar, radioed one warning of "traffic at two-thirty, six miles northeast bound," and then another of "what appears to be jet traffic off your right now, 3 o'clock at one mile northeast bound." The only response from the Connie, after the second warning, was the sound of an open microphone; the rest was silence...
Most of the parties are for men only and are in restaurants and nightclubs, but this year there was competition for odd places to hold them. Two groups chartered Tokyo streetcars; another went aboard a coastal steamer. One party was held atop Tokyo Tower, which bills itself as higher than the Eiffel Tower...
...those few seconds, La Guardia tower raised the nearby Idlewild airport tower by radio, asked if Idlewild had any aircraft in the vicinity of the TWA's flight path. Replied Idlewild...