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...great grassy mall." What the architect has contrived is an appalling combination of a suburban shopping plaza, every golfer's nightmare of an eighteenth hole, and a mausoleum (perhaps designed for the 60 most active members of the GSTFU). When one consider the utopian promises of Stubbins and Associates, Disney World pales by comparison...
...South escapes relatively unscathed from the reductions, not surprisingly, since Southerners in Congress remain in control of military affairs. When McCoy Air Force Base shuts down in Orlando, Fla., thousands of people will be out of work. But the city's economy, booming from the $40 million Disney World venture, will hardly notice the loss. Though Georgia will lose three military bases, Senator Sam Nunn said he would ask some questions of the Administration but not raise too much fuss. Compared to the cutbacks in other states, he declared, "Georgia fared well...
...auction in Boca Raton, Fla., recently, a man from Lake George, N.Y., bought his daughter an unusual present for $37,000: the "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang" car, complete with wings and propeller, used in the 1968 Walt Disney movie. In Indianapolis last year, Greta Garbo's old Duesenberg brought $95,000. In Hollywood, TV Producer Burt Sugarman recently picked up a unique addition to his collection of classic cars: a 1927 Brewster Stratford Rolls. The price...
...scenarists, the Sherman brothers, are the songwriting team whose dwarf-sized talents were nurtured in the Disney forest (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks). They have cleared away plenty of room for lyrical reflections on such matters as existence ("Man's gotta be what he's born to be") and mortality ("Sooner or later, just like a patater, man's planted in his grave"). They even empty Tom's whitewash pot of its humor and fill it with one of their characteristically neologistic songs, Gratification-which is not exactly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
FRIDAY: Tom Sawyer. Twain's classic tale of boyish mischief on the Mississippi comes to television minus some of Tom's mischief and with an Ontario setting. Very Walt Disney. CH. 7. 8 p.m. Color...