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Election night Stevenson settled down to listen to the increasingly disheartening returns on a portable radio in a ground-floor office of the Illinois governor's mansion at Springfield. At 12:40 in the morning, when Democratic hopes were clearly dead, he drove over to his election-eve campaign headquarters in Springfield's Leland Hotel. Smiling as the Democratic crowd loyally chanted "We want Stevenson," the governor, in a generous and graceful speech, conceded the election to Dwight Eisenhower. Said he: "The people have rendered their verdict, and I gladly accept it. General Eisenhower has been a great...
...ground-floor apartment, jammed with books, hung with of crowded with knickknacks, including herds of carved elephants trekking over shelves and mantel, Cummings entertains his friends. He sits in a straight chair tilted against the wall. Crumpled bills, spilled coins, dropped when he returned from his walk, strew the table at his side. His eyes light up - he has decided to needle one of those present. His tongue is sharp and witty, and he talks fast, sometimes out of the side of his mouth, with a mimic's art and the insistence of a barker...
...adopting air-conditioning throughout, as U.N. did, UNESCO plans to keep cool by using blue glass sun screens down the south and east sides, with a sprinkler system to sluice dirt and dust off the glass. Instead of sitting on a solid, enclosed base, UNESCO will rest on ground-floor stilts such as France's famed Le Corbusier tried and failed to get in the U.N. plans...
Manhattanites seldom waste a glance on the towers of steel and stone that hem them in. They are content instead to let their eyes rest on rich objects displayed behind plate glass in the towers' ground-floor shops. Last week a new office building on midtown Park Avenue forced New Yorkers to look aloft for the simple reason that it has no shops and seems, to have no ground floor...
More than a Quick Profit. When Lever House was in the early design stage, Skidmore experts spent days assembling an impressive array of arguments against ground-floor shops, e.g., shops would require basement storage space that might better serve as a Lever garage, in bad times the company might have to subsidize the shops to give the building a prosperous appearance, etc. By the time the soapmen got to see the final soaring design, they were dead set against shops. "They liked what they saw," says Skidmore, "and they wanted something more than a quick profit...