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...Angeles Music Center for the Performing Arts, an equal sum for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about his "edifice complex," Ahmanson is widely admired among S. & L. men. "We may be jealous...
...Though that statue bears an inscription which reads, "The Union must be preserved"--an inscription which has to strike a Southern ear with painful irony--it is not a Northern town. It is not an All-American town, though bright, brassy Kwik-Cleen or Bunny Burger stands line the boulevard, as they do in every other American town. And it is not a European town though the street signs are in French and the houses have a grace that can only be French...
...that Kennedy men cannot lose in cod country is illusory: Mayor John Collins, who is retiring after two terms, originally beat a Kennedy endorsee. Both Lawyer Hicks, 48, and Lawyer White, 37, are Irish Catholics, but Mrs. Hicks is the daughter of Judge William Day, whose memorial is a boulevard in the Irish quarter of South Boston, and her address allows her to warble Southie's My Home Town with fidelity. White lives in the Beacon Hill section, suffers in the eyes of Southies from guilt by association with Brahmins...
...came an other surprise-a second statement from Hughes, in which he predicted that Las Vegas could eventually grow to the size of Houston. If this happens, said Hughes, "the present location of McCarran Field would be approximately comparable to having the airport for Los Angeles located on Wilshire Boulevard at the Miracle Mile...
...European manufacturing complex was "our winning horse"-ITT was doing poorly in its U.S.-based manufacturing operations-Geneen decided to ride it especially hard, fused it under a single headquarters located in Brussels. To house the newly created ITT-Europe, a handsome building went up on Brussels' Boulevard de l'Empereur-smack in between the Belgian Socialist Party headquarters and the national unemployment office...