Word: tower
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...leaning tower of Atlanta
Atlanta's new tower has become a laboratory for energy-saving devices. A computer automatically shuts off all lights at 6 p.m. unless instructed to leave some on. Advanced sodium-vapor light fixtures focus illumination on desks instead of dispersing the glow throughout the room. This alone should cut electricity use for lighting by half. A 300,000-gal. underground tank stores water that is chilled overnight when power costs are lower; the water is then used in the air-conditioning system during the daytime. Jobs that require work at unusual hours will be concentrated in an adjoining three...
...problem was where to put Weinberger, and the answer seemed to be in the Pentagon, primarily because Secretary of Defense was the hardest senior post to fill. Other candidates kept getting ruled out. Texas Senator John Tower campaigned for the job, but Reagan wanted him in stead to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the new Republican-controlled Senate. John Connally pushed to become either Secretary of State or Defense, but the Reaganauts balked at the outspoken and controversial Texan. Says one: "There are just too many problems with John, and he brings with him no political benefits...
...then 20, then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns. The car clatters, the body shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast, the La Sal Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting the Six-Shooter Peaks, then Cathedral Butte. The Colorado and Green rivers meander deep in the shadows, carving their signatures into the mesa with canyons...
...River and into the Trees (1950). Years later, stung by inferences in a Hemingway biography, Ivancich, now Countess Von Rex, 50, says that she "felt it was time to tell how it really was." How it was, she says, in the as yet untranslated La Torre Bianco (The White Tower), was chaste. Their love was consummated only in fiction, both in Across the River and, more figuratively, in The Old Man and the Sea (1952), where Ivancich recognizes herself as the elusive fish, chased and hooked by the masterful old fisherman...