Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thornton, of course, refused, I quit, and I hope that somewhere in the Tribune Tower someone is flogging himself with old press releases...
...talk he stressed the unfinished quality of the Harvard and B.U. buildings. With the Holyoke Center we now "only see the first half, so if we are horrified we must wait and see the other half." Speaking about the B.U. complex comprising the student center, library, and law school tower, he hoped people would "defer judgment until the whole mess is there...
Goldwater, Ariz. Smith, Me. Jordan, Idaho Tower, Texas...
Texas (25). Goldwater is the darling of Texas conservatives, and Texas' Republican Senator John Tower is a leader of the national Goldwater drive. But the national Democratic Administra tion has poured space-age industry into Texas, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, although perhaps not the power he once was in Texas, is still a hard man to beat in his home state. Kenne dy could easily beat any other G.O.P. candidate-but against Barry Goldwater, he can only be rated even...
Carillon technique requires striking rounded oak keys with clenched fists while pumping on the foot pedals-yet tone is controlled by variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the broad keyboard confronts him like a firing squad's rifles. Each carillon is unique, and because the 12-ton, E-flat bourdon bell in the Washington carillon is heavier and therefore deeper in pitch than its counterpart in Kansas, Barnes must rescore all his music a major third higher...