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Endless Boom. Seventh biggest of U.S. cities by 1960 census figures, Houston claims to be the fastest-growing major city in the nation. Last year Houston issued $338 million worth of building permits, trailing only New York and Los Angeles. Over the past decade, office space in the city has almost doubled, to more than 12 million sq. ft. Nine new skyscrapers costing a total of $90 million are currently being added to the Houston skyline, which already includes the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, the new 44-story downtown headquarters of Humble Oil & Refining Co. Under construction...
...superliner for the North Atlantic run. Last week, to the crash of band music and the splash of spumante, Michelangelo's twin, Raffaello, slid down the ways at Trieste. When the two ships go to work next year, replacing the prewar Saturnia and Vulcania, they will be the fastest liners on the New York-Mediterranean run, cutting the voyage to Naples from eight to seven days...
Each day it will be inhabited by 17,000 people. Most of them will be whisked into the building by four electric escalators moving directly from Grand Central Terminal itself into the grandiose lobby brooded over by a bust of the founder, the late Erwin S. Wolfson. The fastest of the building's 65 elevators will rocket passengers to the top at the rate of two floors a second...
...Texas farmer's cow ran as good as new when the farmer retrieved it. Like the cow, U.S. jewelers know how it feels to swallow Timex. At first they opposed carrying Timex's low-cost, low-profit watches, but Timex is now the nation's fastest-selling timepiece. Since the first Timex was sold twelve years ago, Americans have bought 50 million of them and U.S. Time has become the world's largest watchmaker (1962 sales: $74.5 million). Last year one out of every three of the 23 million watches sold...
...other Crimson entries did not qualify for the finals in the face of some of the fastest times in the country. In the 500-yard freestyle. Dick McDonough of Villanova led Yale's Lyn Straw to the finish in 5:02.3, the fastest time in the East this year...