The tower, on East 22nd St. between Broadway and Park Avenue South, would be only 50 feet wide at the base but would expand like a slender champagne flute and be wider at the top, a rendering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal shows.

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Competitions are usually only open to women, who must race in heels that are at least 7cm high and no more than 1.5cm wide at the base.

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Rathbun said that he was resistant, and that Miscavige grew frustrated with him, assigning him in 2004 to the Hole a pair of double-wide trailers at the Gold Base.

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Professor Garvey envisages a cone-like structure stretching 50 meters wide at the top to around 80 meters across at the base.

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