Word: setbacks
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...building. Built by Glass Elevator Corp. of San Diego, the transparent 16-passenger elevator rides on a hydraulic steel ram 16 inches in diameter and 175 feet long. It starts its upward journey in the hotel lobby, emerges through the second-floor roof above the building's setback, then heads for the 12th-and 15th-floor restaurants. Glass Elevator Corp., which has already lined up other potential customers, says that an outdoor elevator can be put on any skyscraper, no matter how tall, by using cables instead of a hydraulic...
...contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar to the one he suffered at Kamin's trial...
Stevenson's setback in Minnesota was undoubtedly influenced by regional factors; what is far more significant is the general decline of the spirit of the Stevenson forces on a national scale that began long before the Minnesota race...
...views of moderation, but I didn't realize how big it was. I'm not discouraged." He will continue to cover the segregation story "on its merits" in the news columns, hopes that the editorial "position we've been forced to take as a temporary setback to moderation in our area may be the catalyst to bring the moderates into action to override the extremists...
Beer, state chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, last week called the defeat in the Minnesota primaries a major setback for Stevenson. If Kefauver wins in the nation's primaries, Beer predicted, a dark horse candidate might get the Democratic nomination...