Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...19th century, by bolting together the most cavernous railroad station. In the 20th century, cities began putting their pride in the sky and, until lately at least, the sky scraper sufficed as the symbol. Now the high-rise office has an even skinnier cousin, the cloud-busting television tower-generally equipped with a slowly rotating restaurant...
...transmissions, Tokyo duplicated the Eiffel Tower, only 40 ft. higher. Other antennas have risen in Cairo and Teheran. But the erection of TV towers has reached epidemic proportions only in Europe, where local papers breathlessly report every increase in height, meter by meter, as the towers rise...
...towers rape the low skyline of cities that have evolved over centuries, who cares? They make such great tourist attractions that a commission of Hamburgers seriously suggested that their tower, now under construction, be designed with a built-in lean to woo tourist dollars away from Pisa. It won't, but there's a consolation: in addition to doing the things that other TV towers do-transmitting radio and TV signals and conventional phone calls-it will buzz any motorist equipped with a simple and inexpensive receiver, signaling him to go to a telephone and call his office...
...matter. Moscow's tower is already taller than the Eiffel Tower, and when it is completed a year from now to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, it will be 1,722 ft. high, 250 ft. more than the Empire State Building. Muscovites will enjoy dining in its revolving three-story restaurant. Distant viewers will love having TV programs beamed directly from Moscow over the Urals to Vladivostok and Yakutsk. And Aeroflot pilots will be mad about it: with its antenna tips swaying 23 ft. in the wind, it will be the greatest aviation obstacle in Moscow...
...avail. Within one 24-hour period last month, two persons scaled the barrier and plunged to their deaths. Last week a young Vietnamese man became the tower's 349th suicide. Buffeted by more angry headlines, the Eiffel society announced that they would heighten the barrier to ten feet. Would that stop would-be suicides? Shrugged the official in charge of tower safety: "There is only one solution: dismantle the Eiffel Tower piece by piece. Then suicide candidates would have to throw themselves into the Seine...