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Beds for Grief. On the roof of the vertical mortuary will be a heliport, so that bodies can be flown in quickly from outlying areas. There will be an eight-story garage for visitors, two churches and 21 chapels. Each of the latter has a bed for grieving friends and relatives. Explains Architect Dy-lardo Silva e Souza: "Who wants to spend the night in the kind of cemetery we have now?" Another feature: soothing but somber background music, 24 hours a day. "We can't play sambas in a place like this," says Silva e Souza...
Bowing to conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...
Soon the convenience of such close-in facilities will be available to a far wider public. Preliminary approval has been given to Pan Am's proposal to build a new heliport at 61st Street on the East River, which will service both private and commercial copters. Pan Am and New York City are also planning to build a 2,400-ft.-long runway out over the Hudson River between 59th and 68th Streets to handle S.T.O.L. (short takeoff and landing) planes that can carry up to 60 passengers, fly off airstrips as short...
Immediately, New York's proposed new heliport and stolport will be used to improve connections between Manhattan and its small outlying satellite fields in Teterboro, N.J., Farmingdale, L.I., and Westchester County. The objective is to encourage private planes to use the satellite fields instead of the presently more convenient but overworked commercial jetports-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark-to which small planes contribute 40% of the combined traffic during rush hours, and at La Guardia alone...
...Mayor Lindsay, notfiied of the demonstration, flew by police helicopter from the Wall Street heliport to an airfield in Brooklyn. A few minutes later his black sedan drew up behind the crowd of shouting protestors. As he stepped out of the car and was recognized, there was sudden silence...