Lordy, Lordy Look Who’s Forty

When you turn your fourth decade, that phrase, usually, is the printed tribute you get from your friends in my local paper, the Chillicothe Gazette. (And this is probably the only time I’ll ever get to use it.) The gigantic landmark that is the TV Tower, a k a Fernsehturm, turned 40 last Saturday. At 200m Deutsche Marks, it ran 600% over budget. It was a spectacular endeavor in every sense, one bi...