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...tucked in neatly on a 100-ft. by 320-ft. corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, has 800 rooms, 21 stories, and looks compact enough to be stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street is a welcome change from Manhattan's orange-crate rectangularity, but the sea-green color of that...
...NATO and a critic of De Gaulle's obstinate objections to putting French forces under NATO command. And on his last tour of duty before retirement, Challe was Commander, Allied Forces, Central Europe, where he was in daily contact with U.S. officers serving at his headquarters in Fontainebleau. Some French officials, who have long resented CIA dabbling in Laos and South Viet Nam, fed the rumors...
Steel called the president of General Motors and said, "Give or else." Education was the theme of Meyer's Administration. Not only was a college education available to every youngster; it was compulsory. The summer White House was installed at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Passing out cigars, checking the stakes of the pinochle game in the East Room, keeping the guests' glasses filled with seltzer water -Jacob Meyer was a beloved President...
Miami's police pray that the Cubans will find jobs to keep them busy. But Dade County already counts 22,000 unemployed Americans, and probably no more than 1,000 refugees have regular jobs. Former Under Secretary of Commerce Carlos Smith, 52, wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work...
Steam-Heated Doghouse. Becket's first made-to-order design was a far cry from such independence. After graduating from the University of Washington's College of Architecture ('27) and attending Fontainebleau's Ecole des Beaux Arts, he got one of his first commissions in Seattle: building a steam-heated doghouse. Becket later formed a partnership with College Classmate Walt Wurdeman, in 1932 moved to Los Angeles, where the partners made their mark by building houses to order for movie stars. During World War II they switched to mass production, built housing for 50,000 California...