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...animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have been released from the cages of the poor; they are nasty and virulent over trifles, since the little they have to lose is their all. In this asphalt-jungle world, all trust has been lost and suspicion breeds menace...
Around the dirt and asphalt speed ways of the South, auto-racing fans still talk about his father, Lee Petty, who in 13 years on the stock-car circuit won 54 Grand National races-a record that few experts ever expected to see beaten. Papa Petty is now 53; he walks with a permanent limp, the souvenir of a day at Daytona, Fla., when his car hurtled through a guardrail at 155 m.p.h., soared 150 ft. through the air, landed upside down in a parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around...
...years. Manufactured by J. P. Stevens Co. for former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood's Tennis Development Corp., Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene foam...
...everyone. Excellent hotels have sprung up along the Dalmatian coast, especially at Split and Dubrovnik. Rates remain low ($14 a day, including meals), and additional private-enterprise restaurants are being encouraged. To speed tourists in and out, there are direct flights from Rome and a new, two-lane asphalt highway. Only drawback: in rushing the new road to completion, no guard rails were installed along nearly 400 miles of highway that winds hundreds of feet above the Adriatic...
...which date back to 1898. The financial community, says Simon, recoiled from this idea more than any other. Thinking in the United States has been that a shopping center is a shopping center, even if it looks like a maze of neon signs set in a huge field of asphalt. When Simon proposed that two-and three-story buildings, with commercial space and living units, would look better, and sell better, the response was skeptical. Yet the apartments over the Lake Anne Center sold faster than any others, and were taken even before the builders could get them ready...