Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down will come the 33-story hotel, and in its place will rise a 40-story office skyscraper that will house the New York and overseas headquarters of General Motors. G.M. is eager to trade up from its shabby, 37-year-old offices at Broadway and 57th Street. Rayne is more than happy to accommodate G.M. by razing the Savoy Plaza; he believes that the New York hotel market is overbuilt and will be in trouble after the World's Fair closes. Says he: "What's good for General Motors is good for London Merchant Securities...
...commanding officer of the U.S. Army's 57th Medical Detachment, Kelly insisted on rotating his men on dangerous night rescue missions, but kept his own name at the top of every flight roster. Of the 1,600 casualties his five UH-1B choppers had lifted from the paddies of the Mekong Delta this year, more than 500 were carried by Kelly himself. "He worked day and night, seven days a week," said one of his lieutenants. "He wouldn't even take a beer in the evening for fear it might affect his flying. He had only one purpose...
Lieut. General Harold Keith Johnson, 52, new Army Chief of Staff, replaces Wheeler. In selecting him, President Johnson skipped over 43 more senior generals. A slight, sandy-haired man, Johnson was a lieutenant colonel with the 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) when the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941. He was captured, endured the infamous Bataan death march, survived three years in Japanese prison camps. In Korea in 1950, he took command of a combat infantry battalion, fought through the bloody defense of the Pusan perimeter and later was named a regimental commander. Back in the U.S., Johnson became commandant...
PAUL REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...
JAMES METCALF-Loeb, 12 East 57th. The polished brass sculptures of an American in Paris all have secrets, none of which will be told here, for the fun of walking around Metcalf's pieces is the surprise of revelation. In his second one-man show in New York he proves to be a sculptor with an extraordinary imagination, honed, perhaps, by considerable contact with the surrealists. Through June...