Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon, ready for his official announcement in February, unleashed his strongest attack yet on the Johnson Administration. On a Texas tour squired by Republican Senator John Tower, the Republican front-runner attacked Lyndon Johnson by name, parodying his State of the Union message. "Can this nation afford to have four more years of Lyndon Johnson's policies that have failed at home and abroad?" he asked Dallas Republicans who braved rainy skies to greet him. "Never in history has the United States been in more trouble in more places than today. Never has so much diplomatic and military...
...rolled again, at first gently, then with a sickening sway. Before their eyes, Salaparuta crumbled apart like a child's sand castle. Within 30 seconds, the nine-century-old vineyard town was little more than dust. Left standing over the moonlit rubble was a solitary sentinel, a church tower, whose bell was jolted by the earth's angry vibrations into a final eerie death knell...
...Cover) No green light flared from a track-side tower; no warning whistle echoed down the line. But no trainman missed the signal. When the Supreme Court gave its approval last week to the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, it was clearing the track for the nation's entire rail system. It was giving railroad management permission to highball into the future...
...draft blew through the hallowed halls of the Ivory Tower this year and seniors who will have to face induction within the next six months are getting cold feet...
...Subscription Services Division, which is based in Chicago and employs nearly 2,000 people. Each week they address and service more than 12 million magazines, books and records. To expedite this exacting, highspeed task, Time Inc. has broken ground for expanded facilities in a 404-ft. tower that will rise just north of the Chicago River, near the shore of Lake Michigan...