Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...payload equal to their own weight. At this height they will be able to send line-of-sight communication beams to similar vehicles 600 miles away. As TV stations they will be capable of serving an area 50 times larger than can be reached by a 1,000-ft. tower. As radar stations, they could each guard a large part...
...space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé depicted near, of all things, the Eiffel Tower. Next, Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande swoon under a yellow angel...
...Slim Tower. The Chinese test was in the atmosphere; the nuclear device was probably perched on a slim tower several hundred feet high to keep the fireball out of contact with the ground. This type of test, outlawed by the U.S.. Russia and Britain by the 1963 test ban treaty, has much to recommend it to the novice nuclear power. The explosion's position is known precisely, and it can be watched by hundreds of instruments, some of them so close that they are vaporized a few microseconds after they send their data...
...Nile, you're the Tower of Pisa...
...Seattle. Pilot Rod Taylor takes a cup of coffee from Stewardess Suzanne Pleshette, trades a quip or two. Suddenly a bell clangs in the cockpit, a light blinks a warning on the control panel. "Engine blew," snaps Taylor. In two-engine-aircraft dramas, troubles never come singly. The tower reports three other planes blocking the path back to the strip. The radio goes dead. And of course Engine No. 2 conks out. Flight 22 crash-lands on a deserted beach, bellies safely down and plows through the sand-only to hit an abandoned pier and incinerate...