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...transit facilities (although New York is preparing to build a 2.5-mile Lower Manhattan crosstown expressway; estimated cost: $100 million a mile). In San Francisco, where the city board of planners have refused since 1958 to allow any freeways to be built, the 75-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) automated system of trains running at 90-sec. intervals is to be completed in 1971. Cost: $13 million a mile...
...year's Givenchys and Chanels. Her evening gowns at times are even languidly reminiscent of the 1930s, when, as the daughter of a successful Hungarian couturier ("I was born on the cutting-room table"), she founded her establishment in the Budapest of Ferenc Molnar and Béla Bartók. Still, the fact that after postwar years of obscurity, she thrives today and retails her wares to the likes of Jovanka Tito, the Marshal's wife, illustrates a new wrinkle in dialectical materialism. Fashion, long considered frivolous and bourgeois, is once again fashionable throughout Eastern Europe...
...second structure for exhibitions was bankrolled by Savings and Loan Tycoon Bart Lytton. The permanent collection hangs in the last pavilion-four tiers of balconies around an 85-ft.-high interior court, which was due to the generosity of Financier Howard Ahmanson...
...beating Princeton 6-3 and Hamilton 12-0, the Cadets have shown they can score. Captain Mike Thompson whose 60 points last year made him third highest in the East, made the All-East first team; linemate Bart Barry was the fourth-ranking scorer with 56 points...
...BARTÓK: THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN SUITE (London). Intended for a dance pantomime, this is some of the most unsettling music ever written. A mandarin, lured by a prostitute and mortally stabbed by her accomplices, finds his lust stronger than death and miraculously lives until his passion is spent. Budapest-born Georg Solti, once a student of Bartók's, whips the London Symphony Orchestra into such a frenzy that the music has the power of a thunderbolt and the illumination of lightning...