Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Texas Republican Senator John Tower, 41, is as much at home in a smoke-filled room as any other politician, but this time the predawn billows in his $42-a-day Sheraton-Dallas Hotel suite were accompanied by a nasty little fire. All but blinded by the smoke, Tower groped his way to the bathroom, wrapped a wet towel around his face and yelled for help. The hotel's soundproofing tabled that motion, so the 5-ft. 5½-in. parliamentarian resourcefully slammed the table right through the window and down into the street 26 floors below...
Gulping air, the Senator then dashed to the phone to summon firemen, who found him safe but sooty. The $1,000 blaze was caused, firemen guessed, by a smoldering cigarette-left over from an earlier smoke-filled session between Tower and Texas Republican cronies...
...been secularized and abandoned during the Revolution. To the younger Des Tournelles, iron collecting was a kind of madness. His wife divorced him over it, his fortune was squandered on it, and the story goes that after he had given his collection to Rouen, he moved into a church tower. On certain days, he could be seen sitting on a curbstone, dining from a tin of sardines-with a servant standing in readiness behind him with a white linen napkin...
Where Murphy needed help was in assembling the sculpture. Actress Anna Bing Arnold (who performed in the 1930s under the stage name of Anna Kostant) contributed Anna Mahler's show-bizzy Tower of Masks for the entrance to Macgowan Hall. In 1964 the U.C.L.A. Arts Council and Regent Norton Simon bought Lipchitz' Song of the Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with...
...Brattle St. neighborhood have skyrocketed, and many homes are selling in the $50,000 to $100,000 bracket. Some people have done substantial remodeling to make less attractive homes "livable." The demand for deluxe accomodations has also made it profitable to build large, expensive apartments, and the new tower at 1010 Memorial Drive may be the first of many. There are other responses to the demand for high quality housing: on Chauncy St. town houses are being constructed and offered for a cool $60,000 each...