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...terminal will admit travelers through an air curtain instead of doors, provide plenty of seats (500 compared to La Guardia's 358) and check-in counters (48 within 40 ft. of the entrance). It will be able to handle up to 1,800 cars an hour, a fully loaded 160-passenger jet airliner every 15 minutes...
Spreading Boycott. There was nothing the police or the Guardia Civil could do. But students ringing a triumphant peal on the university bells gave the heavy-handed cops the excuse they needed. A police riot squad, backed by a fire-department engine squirting dye-stained water, charged into a group of 200 students in the College of Arts and Letters. Later, red-bereted Franco Guards reported a "black deed" committed by the students: a university portrait of Franco was missing and turned up later behind the medical school, with the word TRAITOR written across it. Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga closed...
...Second prize ($1,000) to Abstract Expressionist James Brooks, 50, for his swirling 7-ft.-by-7-ft. R-1953 (right), a noncommittal title indicating alphabetically that it was Brooks's 18th painting in 1953. Born in St. Louis, Artist Brooks is a former WPA muralist (La Guardia Airport's 235-ft. Marine Terminal mural) who switched'over to abstraction, after Army service in World War II, "with a sense of reawakening and release." For Brooks, "the meaning is in the series of relationships, the pressures, the visual shifts. I don't feel the need...
...Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, was born in New York City, educated at Harvard ('36), with postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1940. After a spell as secretary to New York's rambunctious Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and three years in the Army (private to captain), Rockefeller in 1946 went into the bank (in which his family and the Rockefeller Foundation own roughly 5% of the stock, the largest single block). He was appointed a senior vice president...
Mainly because of a big road-building program, the budget still hit a record $52 million. But "Ernestito" de la Guardia hoped that his economies, plus future cost-paring, would make the budget balance...