Word: boulevards
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MANEUVERABILITY was tested on a two-lane straightaway crossed by five intersections, complete with boulevard stop signs. Contestants stopped at each intersection, turned right into a 20-ft. dead end backed across the road into another dead end, then made a left turn onto the straightaway and continued on course. Points were lost for a variety of violations-failing to come to a complete stop at intersections, rolling over the white stop line, failing to finish in the almost impossible time...
...effective novel about the blighted romance of a frail-gunning G.I. and a beautiful Italian girl who is bothered about being bought. Now Scriptwriter Hayes (The Rainmaker, Island in the Sun) has restaged his old no-soap opera. This time the shattered city is Hollywood. The Girl on Wilshire Boulevard is a blank-souled beauty with a neurotic yearning for stardom. The sentimental, insensitive G.I. is a few years older and wryer-a screenwriter on leave from his wife. The prose still has an unwashed smell, but it has been sponged off here and there with the English lavender...
...over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered grille-wall to give the building a hovering effect. Five evenly spaced jet fountains splashed aerated water in the sun. The whole structure was set back a deep 150 ft. from the boulevard, and magnificently set off by San Francisco Landscapist Tommy Church with lawns, ferns, clusters of palms. "Oh, my, Ed," mumbled Hanisch, "that's something. It's fantastic. It's . . . it's outta this world...
...north side of the property, along bustling Santa Monica Boulevard, will rise seven air-conditioned office buildings (including one of 30 stories-far taller than anything now standing in Los Angeles-and three of 22 stories). Near them will spring up an 1 8-story, 1,000-room hotel, a six-story motion-picture arts center with adjoining 4,000-seat auditorium, a series of shops and department stores. Cutting a swath through the whole development will be a 175-ft.-wide concourse almost a mile long, with a centerway of statuary, fountains and subtropical plants...
...Firearms. José Yulo's Liberal Party convention was no competition for the Nacionalistas in the Dewey Boulevard fleshpots. José Yulo wanted it that way, to contrast his party and Carlos Garcia's, since the Liberal Party is still trying to live down its reputation for corruption during the Quirino administration. Yulo gave one sedate, nonalcoholic tea to receive the delegates, 95% already pledged to him. There were no bosomy Yulo boosters and no peso sandwiches, but a fair number of Liberals obediently checked their firearms at the door...