Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slid backward, gathering speed, as the band played and the crowd cheered and the yellow pennant on the conning tower fluttered gaily. The diminutive Rickover had to strain to get a look, when the Nautilus splashed into the icy Thames and floated away in flotsam from the launching cradle. As four tugs fumed up and nudged her toward a fitting-out dock, the Nautilus rode high in the water (her reactor and other heavy parts have not yet been installed). As she disappeared out of sight of the stands, the sun suddenly disappeared with her and the fog closed...
...declared "open season" on him. Two weeks ago, he made the front pages when Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield) dropped its seven-year sponsorship of his radio & TV shows. Last week he was making headlines because of charges that he had endangered life, limb and property by buzzing the control tower at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport after taking off in his DC-3 for Virginia...
...witnesses, Glass told the Civil Aeronautics Administration that on take-off Godfrey gained an altitude of 20 to 30 feet, then made an abrupt left turn, narrowly missed three planes that were warming up on the taxiway, skimmed over a hangar, and thundered directly toward an 87-ft. control tower, whose occupants fled for their lives...
...York Post's Earl Wilson concluded that this just wasn't Godfrey's year, urged that he "take a long rest." Ed Sullivan of the News reported that the Teterboro control tower had immediately called Godfrey to ask if his plane was out of control, and Godfrey had flippantly replied: "No, that's just a normal Teterboro take-off." The Mirror's Nick Kenny came valiantly, if ineptly, to Godfrey's defense. Kenny vaguely hinted that there was still another conspiracy, this time by "the proCommunists who do too much of the hiring & firing...
...stone tower overlooking the Pacific, aging (67) Poet Robinson Jeffers mourns for his wife, who died in 1950, sings the glories of nature, and waits for the peace that is death. There are still plenty of Jeffers admirers who would not hesitate to proclaim him the greatest living U.S. poet. The qualities they have liked in him-his violence, his darkly unrelenting, tragic view of human existence, his lines surging with the momentum of Pacific rollers-are all present in Hunger-field, his first book in five years. But they are echoes now. Writes Jeffers in the last poem...