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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other junior standout, Heyward Dotson, an All-Ivy selection last year at guard, has been playing a lot in the center on offense this year with 7 ft. center Dave Newmark departed to the Pros. Both Dotson and 6'3" captain Roger Walaszek score between 16 and 18 points a game...
Bulky Bundle. The man in Ontario Street in Chicago, that is. With the aid of half-a-dozen assistants, 10,000 sq. ft. of dark brown canvas and 4,000 ft. of manila rope, Christo has turned Chicago's chunky Museum of Contemporary Art into an imposing if somewhat minimal-looking bundle. It is part of a five-week-long display of his talents, with packaged furniture and pictures shown indoors...
...ft.-high sausage-shaped balloon enfolding plain air, for instance, was the dominant feature of the landscape at West Germany's Kassel Documenta last summer. He has constructed dozens of storefronts with empty display windows. They leave the viewer with his nose pressed against the glass-foolishly aware that he is observing the presence of pure nothingness...
LIVE UPTOWN . . . WORK DOWNTOWN. YOU CAN COMMUTE BY ELEVATOR IN SECONDS. As its full-page newspaper ads suggest, Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center is a most unusual building. The world's second tallest, the 1,107-ft.-high skyscraper* is designed, in effect, as an apartment house atop an office building. A forerunner of the multipurpose "vertical city" of the future, it also looks like a financial winner. As the first tenant moved in last week, the owner, Boston-based John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., predicted that by next year the building will be producing...
...Just 17 ft. shorter than Manhattan's Empire State Building, it could go no higher because of local zoning laws and Federal Aviation Agency restrictions...