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...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...
...rain. Each seat is a minimum of 20 in. wide (v. the standard 17 in.), and many are thoughtfully equipped with outlets for electric blankets. Scattered strategically about the stadium are 45 rest rooms and 27 concession stands. There is a 12,500-car parking lot, a heliport and a boat landing. Players get into uniform in one of eight dressing rooms, wait their turn at bat in an air-conditioned dugout...
...Joined battle with 50 neighbors over his right to establish a private heliport in his backyard...
...Rory") Walker, 29, rode a motorcycle from Marble Arch to a floating dock on the Thames, leaped into a helicopter, transferred to a jet trainer at Biggin Hill R.A.F. field for the flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris' Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash: 57 min. 47 sec. "Sissy stuff," roared an R.A.F. rival. "I think the time can be brought down to near enough 40 minutes." That...
...Exposition city has its own transportation system, since no private vehicles larger than baby carriages are permitted. Open buses and small motorized carriages constitute the ground transport. Cable cars carry tourists above the Fair. And the Expo has its own "heliport" for aerial sight-seeing and heliocopter service to Amsterdam, Paris and other European cities...