Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychedelic office in Rockefeller Center or as a director in a spartan white study at the top of his Manhattan town house. After the draining experience of Night Music, however, he plans to sit and read for a while, and will eventually wind up, no doubt, at the remote mountaintop house he and his wife Judy have in Majorca. "I am going to try to break the pattern," he says. "My God, I've been at this for 20 years...
...They work well. But right now Aqua Sans is too expensive to be widely used. Each flush costs .8? (v. .035? for a conventional toilet). Still, it fills a definite need in places with plenty of business but scant water supplies: for example, in desert gas stations or mountaintop rest rooms, and, of course, on ships...
...campaign to ban the 1976 Winter Olympics from the state. The California Supreme Court earlier this year slowed construction of high-rise ski condominiums in the southern Sierras. Bavarian officials have squelched a plan to open for skiing the 8,901-ft. Watzmann Mountain near Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountaintop retreat...
...President's mountaintop appointments have a sober clarity: they are meant to give Nixon control of parts of the Government that eluded him in his first term. His selections are expected to be as good at taking orders as at executing them. The group has the look of a tight, no-nonsense team, utterly devoted to the chief-a White House staff writ large...
...over the next ten months, to make the project seem authentic. McGraw-Hill editors received calls from various points -Mexico, Puerto Rico, Miami and other cities-where Irving reported his progress with Hughes. Irving said that he first met Hughes at 7 a.m. on Feb. 13 on a mountaintop in Oaxaca, Mexico. He reported that he had signed a letter of agreement with Hughes in San Juan on March 4. He brought the forged document to New York, and on March 23 signed with McGraw-Hill a contract providing for an immediate $100,000 advance. Eventually McGraw-Hill paid Irving...