Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Garrison H. Davidson, 51, onetime (1933-38) West Point football coach, since 1954 commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves inside the crumbling walls of old Fort Yuma. The Public Works Department ("Golden Arm" Sullivan's code name for the 4th Sappers Unmounted Light) attempted to erect scaling ladders (see foreground) but pikemen within kept the ladders without. In addition to the sidewalk squad, the City Council finally declared a state of emergency and seized...
Last week Fort Worth civic leaders heard a Los Angeles and Manhattan community planner unveil a bold solution to their problem. They were advised to dig deep into the heart of their beloved Texas to create subterranean truck lanes, park every arriving automobile, and turn streets within a downtown square mile into a pedestrians' paradise of shrubbery, statuary, malls, covered walks and sidewalk cafes. The cost ($100 million, according to some guesses) would be partially paid in parking fees and through higher tax values...
Author of the plan is 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...
When Gruen finished, his audience of Fort Worth community leaders enthusiastically appointed study committees. They were so impressed by the Texas-like immensity of the project that none stopped to chide him for an undiplomatic slip: his report had said that "Fort Worth now finds itself not keeping pace with Dallas...