Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...
Bill really is small. At 5 ft. 10 in. and 175 lbs., he does not tower over his opponents. But he feels his biggest drawback is speed. "I guess I do about a 4.8 in the 40-yard dash," he says, "but only when I'm scared...
...close to 250,000 people. Windsor, a medium-sized processing and industrial center, is the quiet gateway to Ontario's southern farmlands. Windsor is hardly a hub cap's throw away from the soon to be completed Detroit Renaissance Center. From the top of the Center's 70-story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able to see why in 1974 there were only 25 murders in Windsor, and 801 in the Motor City...
...Chairman Frank Church called the charge "preposterous." Said he: "We had no evidence to suggest that she was a conduit of any kind. We had no evidence that she was used to get a hold on the President. Had we such evidence, we certainly would have included it." John Tower of Texas, the committee's vice chairman and its senior Republican, backed Church fully...
When he is not watching the 23-inch Zenith console in his bachelor apartment near the Tribune Tower, Deeb prowls the corridors of local broadcast stations seeking out disgruntled producers, reporters and even advertising salesmen. "Reviewing programs is the least important part of the job," he says. "I love to expose fraudulent, shoddy practices...