Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened. Virtually all of them could offer Nixon, a man of the center, the sort of progressive appeal that would compensate for his weakness in the heavily urbanized industrial states. Such ideological equations are fast replacing geographical balance as the criteria for the second spot. Reagan, Texas Senator John Tower and Florida Governor Claude Kirk figured less prominently in the speculation; if Nixon decided that he needed a man from the right to offset George Wallace's third-party appeal, he was expected to turn to them. But the betting favored someone from the liberal camp...
...church bells clanged in suddenly tilted steeples as a 1-min. quake rolled across the island of Luzon in predawn darkness, catching most Filipinos in their beds. Cracks appeared in the façades of luxury hotels in Manila, and glass panes were wrenched out of the airport control tower by the shock. A five-story apartment building in Manila's Chinese quarter collapsed, trapping 600 people under tons of rubble. At least 111 were known dead in the Philippines' worst earthquake in over a decade...
...Paris in 1925. But it was never built. Engineers in Stockholm have reconstructed the model from photographs, complete with four slowly revolving inner structures shaped variously like a pyramid, a hemisphere and two cylinders. Overall, Tatlin's monument looks rather like a cross between the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...write this a few hours before Wednesday night's voting session, the Republican Convention is something of a joke. When Mayor Lindsay and Sen. John Tower of Texas can agree on a Vietnam plank although one is a dove and one a super hawk, when Rockefeller can talk about winning (and the New York Times can try so hard to believe him) at a convention whose delegates go wild for Barry Goldwater and give a louder ovation to Max Rafferty than to Mayor Lindsay, when Gov. Spiro T. Agnew of Maryland can switch his allegiance from Rockefeller because...
...buildings stand by calling attention to the structural system. In San Francisco's Alcoa building, the beautifully proportioned glass box hangs within a strong steel cage of vertical and diagonal steel beams. It thus avoids that hallmark of cheap building, a forest of interior columns. In the Gulf Life tower in Jacksonville, the architects went a step further; they expressed engineering stress lines by thickening concrete beams where they meet columns, narrowing them where there is less need for brawn...