Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, Belgium's Order of Leopold, France's Legion of Honor, Italy's Order of Merit, the Vatican's Order of Pius IX, Spain's Order of Isabella the Catholic, Portugal's Order of the Tower and Sword...
...Italian hosts had outdone themselves with their new 3,300-seat stadium, aisy-ft. ski-jump tower, 63 miles of ski runs, and 40 mobile kitchens. Perhaps the Italians had organized things too well. Scared away by warnings that hotel space was scant, too many fans stayed home with their television sets. But those who did come found a unique spectacle-one not confined to breakneck competition (see below). The chill of dusk in the Alps, the comfort of yellow lights in windows at that hour, the mountains them selves were a great spectacle to people who had come from...
...More popular: Versailles and the Eiffel Tower...
...Braun, they have given their new country the biggest rocket that has actually been flown. It is a great, sharp-nosed metal cylinder. In accordance with Army doctrine, it is tough, can stand quick transportation and quick firing from enemy-influenced territory. Tested many times from the monstrous steel tower that sticks up above the scrub palmetto of Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Redstone is a vast improvement over its ancestral V2, both in range, guidance and warhead. The Army is confident that after moderate changes it will reach to 1,500 miles. The Redstone is the reason why the Army...
...acres between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River, create a $300 million-$500 million city of the future, with a vast merchandise mart, a permanent World's Fair, a heliport, a glittering television city, a parking lot for 20,000 cars, and a 1,750-foot "Freedom Tower" for, as Zeckendorf put it, "defense observation and other activities." With a target date of 1960, Zeckendorf announced that New York Central Chairman Robert R. Young had offered to help out with the financing and that he had also asked the Pennsylvania Railroad to share in the deal. But, said Zeckendorf...