Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television in the U.S. has never really paid. The sole system now operating in Hartford, Conn., has not begun to show a profit. But Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.,* publishers of classified telephone directories, and Lear-Siegler, Inc., electronics manufacturers, are confident that toll TV has a future...
...second place prize of $10 went to Mrs. Kay C. Willke, Grinnell '59 who teachers English at the Franklin Institute, Boston. Eugene E. Grollmes, S.J., of Boston, was awarded the third place prize of $5, and Susan B. Schwarts '63, of West Hartford, Connecticut and Bertram Hall received an additional fourth place prize, also of $5. A citation of honorable mention went to John N. Paden 2G, of Pasadena, California...
...Connecticut hilltop five miles northwest of Hartford, there rose an office building of such beauty that the American Institute of Architects labeled it one of the "Ten Buildings in America's future." Made of steel, glass and aluminum, the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. head quarters combined the taut discipline of Mies van der Robe's masterpieces with grace notes-inner courtyards, reflecting pools, broad promenades-as old as the most ancient palaces. Now, perhaps to their dismay, the officers and employees of Connecticut General can look out their windows and see on a neighboring knoll...
...Riyadh. An air-conditioned big league baseball stadium is going up in Houston, and $487,000 worth of cooling gear is being installed in the White House. Last week Carrier Corp., the industry's leader, landed an order to cool 180 new Chicago subway cars, and the Hartford Gas Co., which sells metered cooling and heating to office buildings, started operating the world's largest air conditioner-4,500 tons of cooling capacity...
...have shriveled from 93% in 1946 to 62%. More and more U.S. hotels depend on convention business-and, luckily, it is good and growing. Last year 37% of all downtown hotel business came from conventions. In medium-sized cities that no longer attract the conventioneers, such as Buffalo and Hartford, hotels are having a hard time surviving...