Word: ramping
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...million San Francisco Hilton was planned to be unique among world hotels. It would ingeniously combine the best features of a hotel and a motel. On seven of its 18 floors, rooms would sur round a garage core, built under a roof garden and serviced by a spiral ramp. A guest could drive in, pick up his key without getting out of his car, and drive to his room, parking his car right outside. But to San Francisco's Chief Fire Marshal Albert E. Hayes, the guardian of the city's antiquated building code, the hotel...
...happier about the arrangement than General Dynamics' Convair division. For weeks some 14 new Convair 880 jets ordered by Hughes have been parked on the Convair ramp at San Diego's Lindbergh Field, ready for delivery to TWA whenever Hughes paid the $45 million owed on them. All told, Hughes had ordered $126 million worth of jets from Convair, made a $26 million deposit...
...nine passengers. There is a panel version of the Greenbrier for use as a delivery van. ¶Two pickup trucks that are built on the same short wheelbase as the Greenbrier and have a closed cab with open cargo space behind. One of the models has a side ramp for easy loading. ¶ A four-door, six-passenger station wagon on a 108-in. wheelbase...
Most of the diplomatic corps, including U.S. Ambassador H. Freeman Matthews, boycotted the airport reception; only 500 people turned up to watch Khrushchev bounce down the ramp all smiles. The scattered crowds on the streets to town barely outnumbered the 8,000 cops and nearly 1,000 plainclothesmen assigned to protect Khrushchev from Vienna's big refugee population. Since the Soviet press had already promised a "huge and joyous" reception, Soviet cameramen did what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same...
...laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military parade. A U.S. Army Signal Corps team had installed a White House telephone near by; it had been left on an upturned yellow oilcan. As Ike watched the parade, the phone suddenly jangled. A U.S. Secret Service agent picked it up. listened...