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...York's Governor Nelson Rockefel ler pressed a lever, and psss-CHUNK! -a pile driver began to hammer in the first pile for a 200-ft. observation tower, the highest structure at the New York World's Fair 1964-65, and part of New-York State's elegant $5,000.000 pavilion, designed by Architect Philip Johnson. The fair, declared the Governor, was going to be a vast success, visited by 70 million people, and yielding "lasting benefits as a magnificent showcase...
...first guest on a new Canadian TV show, triple-tongued Producer David Susskind, 41, lost no time unsettling citizens on both sides of the border. Kissing off Canada as "a great chunk of geography limping painfully toward anonymity," he quickly turned to a much broader subject-Susskind. "I would like very much to go into politics." he said. President? "No Jewish person can be President of the United States. A Catholic just barely made it." Senator? Yes. "I'd like to go into that solemn chamber, and make some sense...
...sure what part of the Sput nik the chunk of steel came from. It is roughly lens-shaped, with one face smooth and the other covered with very rough steel that looks as if it had melted and then hardened again. This could have happened if the chunk moved white-hot through the atmosphere with the smooth face forward, allowing molten steel to flow to the cooler rear side and solidify there...
...Alamos experts do not want anyone to get the idea that metal which has been exposed to space is dangerously radioactive. The Sputnik chunk, they say is less radioactive than many kinds of granite and wholly harmless. Future satellite frag ments can be safely gathered and sent to the proper authorities for analysis...
Salesman & City Saver. The new Chase headquarters building combines the familiar Rockefeller urge to improve New York City with the more practical aim of selling Chase spectacularly. While other banks were deserting the crowded downtown financial district for roomy midtown offices, David defiantly bought a chunk of downtown land that Morgan Guaranty Trust had decided was too waterlogged to build on. The result: the Chase Manhattan Plaza, where lower Manhattan's first good-looking new building in half a century sits in the midst of a spacious, tree-studded terrazzo terrace. The new Chase headquarters has the nation's biggest...