Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philadelphia's three-year-old Downtown Tennis Club costs $1,000 to join and $360 a year in dues, but the onetime icehouse provides players with a processed cork court (similar to grass, but a good bit slower and more springy), spectators with a 50-ft.-long, glass-enclosed lounge, and both with the prestige of a former Davis Cup star, Vic Seixas, for vice president. Boston's clubs, all private, afford all manner of excellent courts, ranging from the green composition (at the Brookline Country Club) to cork (Longwood) to clay (Dedham Country and Polo Club...
...late William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon ranch into a residential complex. Castle & Cooke, the Hawaiian food combine, is finishing off a 15-story medical building in Los Angeles, has major investments in California residential projects, and is planning a "Rockefeller Center of the Pacific" for downtown Honolulu...
...look. Amid the longest urban land boom in U.S. history, the price of land around the fringes of growing cities has risen anywhere from 100% to 2,000% in the past ten years. With freeways opening up exurban spaces, land development is not only spreading farther from downtown but growing in scale. The old-style developer, rich in imagination but thinly financed, can scarcely afford to participate today, at least not without wealthy partners. As long as the tax rules make real estate an enticing way to cash in on the population boom, more and more well-heeled corporations...
Passenger Fears. The industry has a way to go. It now schedules passenger flights between downtown and airport, airport and airport, and on short suburban runs, but the lines are hampered by erratic schedules, the high cost of operation and passenger fears about safety that are hard to allay. (In the past decade, helicopter lines have carried 3,130,000 passengers with only two fatal crashes.) Every time a helicopter passenger pays $8 for a ride, taxpayers must chip in another $8 to enable him to make the trip. Still, as helicopter technology has advanced, the taxi lines have managed...
...stroke stopped Sheeler's production in 1959. Some of his last works, now on view in Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, show that his precise touch never faltered. The 14 paintings are executed in tempera on small Plexiglas plates, something he often did before expanding them on large canvases. Some seem like multiple-photo exposures of oil refineries, lonely steelscapes gyrating in the sky. Others are pure scenery, where patchy foliage parts to let a background watercolor peep through the Plexiglas...