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...blocks to the south, there was a different kind of opening with its own brand of superlative: the tallest hotel in the world. The Americana zooms up 50 stories in a kind of crescent on Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets. Like its rival, the 46-story still-unfinished New York Hilton a block away, the Americana will help remedy Manhattan's constant shortage of public rooms by supplying them in all sizes and shapes. There are 41 of them in all, seating a total of 11,290 diners (the seven kitchens occupy nearly an acre and contain...
Amsterdam last week was decorated with a million tulips, a billion gaily colored lights, and the most lavish array of royalty that Europe has seen since the coronation of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. To celebrate Queen Juliana's 53rd birthday and 25th wedding anniversary, five other reigning monarchs and a pride of princes trooped to The Netherlands. In a three-day round of banquets, balls and royal rubbernecking that left even the doughty Dutch amazed at their red-blooded stamina, the bluebloods seemed less of an anachronism-and considerably more attractive-than café society...
...denounced: > Columbia's plan for a $6,000,000 business-school building "that we don't need." ^ >Philanthropist Huntington Hartford's abuilding multimillion-dollar art museum on Manhattan's 58th Street "when there is one already-a practically new Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street." >Manhattan's new $4,000,000 hospital for animals on the East River "when we don't have the facilities to take care of all human suffering." Black's advice to the rich: "Give away the bulk of your money to worthwhile causes while...
Since the two locations are both "head" offices, the bank needed a way to coordinate executive operations and communications as if the offices were not really separated. The money committee, for instance, meets every morning. The bankers at the midtown offices at Park Avenue and 53rd Street assemble in their conference room while their colleagues on Wall Street gather in theirs. With cameras trained on each group, and with two TV screens picturing each scene, the members conduct their business as if they were together in one room. Staging plays no part in the meetings; the bankers do not even...
...Democrat Pat Brown hoisted his considerable self onto a surfboard and got spectacularly dunked in the blue Pacific. North Carolina Democrat Terry Sanford rode water skis, Massachusetts Republican John Volpe wiggled a hula, Idaho Republican Robert Smylie and Hawaii Republican William Quinn paddled an outrigger canoe. It was the 53rd Governors' Conference, and the 31 Democrats and 16 Republicans who showed up in Honolulu last week leaned heavily...