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And now Hofheinz has a new spectacular: Astroworld. It opened last week, a 57-acre amusement park near Houston's Astrodome and still another of Hofheinz' ventures, a convention center called Astrohall. Yes, it rained on opening day. Such attractions as a simulated sleigh ride down the 65...
The prototype is Disneyland itself. In its 13 years, the 70-acre, $100 million amusement park in Anaheim has become California's No. 1 tourist attraction: 7,900,000 visitors came last year. The constant influx has helped transform Anaheim from a small, dusty town set amid orange groves...
The lessons provided by Disneyland were put to their first serious test in 1961, when a barren stretch of land midway between Dallas and Fort Worth was taken over by the Great Southwest Corp. and built into the site of Six Flags over Texas, an $18 million, 40-acre imitation...
The ultimate test of the thesis will be the brand-new Walt Disney city in central Florida now being built from scratch on 43 square miles of swampy flatlands. The first nucleus, programmed to open in 1970, will in effect be a Disneyland East, and already 400 acres have been...
On housing, the committee recommended construction of a housing project for Faculty on a vacant 5 1/2 acre lot the University owns on Shady Hill.