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...majority of the Lauderdale gang came from the Big Ten and other Midwestern schools, especially state universities. Ohio State topped them all, as about 320 of its sweatshirt lined Atlantic Boulevard. The closest contenders were Florida State, the University of Florida, Wisconsin -- and of course, Miami. Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, University of Cincinnati, and Bowling Green University led the rest of the field...
Overalls to Ban-the-Bomb. The song was written in the front seat of an automobile, while Songwriter Malvina Reynolds was ticktacktooling along down San Francisco's Skyline Boulevard. At the moment of inspiration, tract houses were pressing in on the road from all sides. Two hours later, she had finished music and lyrics and was performing the song before an audience that liked it so much they laughed all the way back to their boxes...
...Ticky-Tacky Students." A handsome, grey-haired woman with hazel eyes, Malvina Reynolds says she prefers to make her points quietly. "Lashing out is self-defeating," she explains. "It raises hackles." For all that, there are probably a lot of vertical hackles in the housing developments along Skyline Boulevard. Mrs. Reynolds herself lives in an apartment. "Conformity is not a really dreadful thing," she says, "but it's fun to prod it a little...
...branch in Los Angeles' International Airport Center looks as gay as a country club. The round pavilion with glass walls and a cookie-cutter roof juts out from a circular pedestal, and might be overlooking the swimming pool and the 18th hole instead of the corner of Century Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. But by some medieval quirk, Welton Becket & Associates has designed the entrances as bridges over a moat...
...Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, the Perpetual Savings Bank has perpetuated itself in a delicate honeycomb by Edward D. Stone. Tier upon tier of arches suggests a squared-off Tower of Pisa; behind the concrete colonnades is an all-glass building. At each floor level, a continuous flower bed with piped-in water provides hanging gardens to heighten the parallel between Beverly Hills and Babylon...