Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...systems of city planning and redevelopment in four large United States cities were considered in the afternoon. Victor Grulen, noted architect, spoke on the plans for Fort Worth, Texas. The proposed reorganization of this city would radically revise the downtown business center...
...Munich, our special correspondent, Robert Ball, joined the search for information. He went from inconspicuous downtown buildings to an antenna-studded former Luftwaffe base in the suburbs and back to a house hidden among the trees in the Englischer Garten to check with the agencies that monitor Communist-country radio broadcasts and interview refugees from behind the curtain. From these and other private sources, Ball was able to help us flesh out the file for our story, "The Third Man" (TIME, Dec. 19), the first hard look U.S. readers have had at General of the Army Ivan Alexandrovich Serov...
...imagined ailments, who drift from one doctor to the next, demand "miracle" drugs and time-consuming examinations. Moreover, a city generalist competes with company and union-sponsored health centers as well as other G.P.s, and must augment his income from private practice by working for the city and a downtown insurance company...
...Victor Gruen, who has pioneered some of the boldest new architectural projects in the country, e.g., Detroit's 11,500-car Northland shopping center, largest (163 acres) in the nation. Charting Fort Worth's growth, Gruen's planners estimated that 1970 would see 152,000 cars downtown, twice today's total. They advised against widening streets, instead visualized a beltway from which cars would pull into multistory parking garages pronged toward the heart of the site; no central city building would be more distant from a parking space than 2½ minutes' walking time. Small...
...lifting a phone, he can organize a rally in a provincial town 400 miles away, have the region plastered with posters in 48 hours, dispatch two, ten or 20 Assembly Deputies there as if they were errand boys. Every day, new memberships pour into his new offices in downtown Paris, new readers subscribe to his two newspapers...