Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rags and was shipped out. He made it to New Jersey, where he fell afoul of another stool pigeon. Back he went to Charlestown. Next, he and five others managed to sneak in some guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment two of the cons jumped on the ladder and it came crashing down. "This was broad daylight," remembers Green, "and all 300 inmates were watching. It must have been the first break...
...paid $13 million. But expenses mounted while house sales (only 582 so far) lagged behind. Many of Reston's starkly modern town houses proved too costly ($35,000 to $47,000) to lure buyers. In an effort to assure full occupancy of the 15-story apartment tower that makes Reston a symbol of urbanity in the boondocks, rents were set too low to repay the mortgage loan. As Gulf took over, Vice President William L. Henry estimated that Reston would need an injection of $12 million more cash by 1970 to move...
Windows are tucked into a single shaft at the center of each five-story column of offices and labs. Larger windows, opening out from large "think rooms" at the top of each tower, are hooded to protect them from the savage Colorado sun and 125-m.p.h. spring winds. The building's concrete is mixed with a red rock aggregate quarried from nearby mountains, and the building's surfaces are busnhammered to give them a rough finish. Then, to give the site back to nature, the surrounding mesa top, wherever it has been plowed up, is being resown with...
...roughly 25 men and five miniskirted girls each, came from small towns in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy, Britain and West Germany. Earlier rounds took place in eastern Bavaria, where an elephant race was featured, and Pisa, where water polo was played in a massive tank in front of the tower. Last week the finals were staged in Bardenberg, Germany. By then the entrepreneurs had run short of ideas, so the liveliest moments came with the so-called "fruit bowl" game, in which contestants tried to break balloons by rocking up and down in an animal cutout. The German team...
Fringe Benefits. Still at a temperature of 90° F., the unvaporized sea water from the evaporator tower is used to control temperature and humidity levels in nearby greenhouses. Even the exhaust gases, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, are put to work. From the heat exchanger, they are pumped through a scrubber, which rids them of harmful sulfur dioxide, and into the greenhouses, where they provide the proper level of carbon dioxide for ideal plant growth. "Like the old joke about the efficiency of meat-packing plants," says Hodges, "we are even using the squeal of the pig by tapping...