Word: heliports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington. He then went across the hall to a separate prayer breakfast for women, assured the ladies that prayer in the Johnson family has always been "aloud and proud." Flying to New York, Johnson landed at Kennedy Airport, boarded a Marine helicopter, was whisked away to the Wall Street heliport, got into a black limousine and drove to the Carlyle Ho tel - thereby getting the East Side's rush-hour traffic into a memorable...
...Dogs, Memory Lane. From the top of the heliport, which rears like a T square in the sky at the west end of the Fair site, Robert Moses stood in galoshes and windbreaker last week, looking upon his work in all its muddy, megalithic splendor. What Moses saw, however, was not the Fair and the 70 million visitors who would come to gape and ache and learn during the next two years. He saw what would remain after the last hot dog had been sold, the last blister soothed, and the last pageant had hung up its costumes...
...Only the heliport, the Unisphere, and the Hall of Science, among the Fair's great buildings, will survive; the rest will be bulldozed down memory lane. Said Moses: "Even if their foundations were solid enough to make them last-which they aren't-what would we do with them? We want the land for people, for a new sort of super Central Park, with marinas and every outdoor recreation facility. Greater New York's population center has shifted out here, with new apartments rising all the time, and people must have breathing space. This is the last...
...Million Cancellation. There has been more coming than going. Already in the foundation stage are the buildings of the Bell System, Du Pont. Eastman Kodak, Electric Power & Light. Ford. Festival of Gas, IBM, General Motors, Sinclair Oil, Travelers Insurance, and the heliport. The international exhibitors are somewhat farther behind; 65 foreign exhibitors have declared their "intent" to be present. Of these, at least 35 have signed up for specific space, 17 have submitted designs. and two - Hong Kong and Vatican City* - have started test borings. Altogether, 83% of international area space has been allocated, 71% of the industrial area...
...rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine helicopters; through its cellarage rumble some 400 trains daily; and in between, 63 elevators will carry some 25,000 office staffers and executives up and down...