Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what endures. Little rain falls, the earth is riddled with rocks that men have been heaving into meandering low walls for generations; the olive trees are strong and timeless but can't escape the battering winds and sigh and hunch towards the ground. Still there are cypress that tower slender in clans of two or three, and there is sweet honey in the hives that range the mountains. Greek people honor the simplicity of their land--they build white houses with pure geometric lines and they accept the bread and wine and olives it offers with pleasure, and respect...
...asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London's House of Commons, the danger of this latest U.S. aberration's infecting other countries was excoriated, but the warning was too late. First a dozen Americans streaked the Eiffel Tower in Paris, then streakers blossomed in two places in West Germany, and a naked blonde girl dashed 50 yards through the quiet English resort of Bournemouth...
...turned out that Abbie Hoffman was on board with his two-year-old son america, and he had to be back in the States the next day for his cocaine trial. So the DC 8 headed for Maine and a lobster dinner. As the jet approached Bangor, a confused tower controller radioed: "Freelandia? Uh, who owns this plane?" The pilot replied confidently: "We do." No further comment...
During a trial run, the mailboy missed a turn and went crashing through a men's room door. Now he has a regular office job-delivering and picking up letters on the 49th floor of Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused...
...Jersey's central management. He melded the operation of five U.S. affiliates into a smoothly functioning division and cut the work force from 40,000 to 28,000. The division was later renamed Exxon Co., U.S.A. The consolidation left scars; some longtime Humble employees still call the Exxon Tower in Houston "Yankee Stadium." Jamieson became a U.S. citizen in 1964. "It only made good sense," he says, "because when you're dealing with U.S. Government people, you can't deal with them adequately if you're a foreigner representing a U.S. company...