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...They'll never solve the traffic jams," opines Logue. "What we lack in open space, we will make up in convenience." Two Stories High. The third of the three top urban renewal men in the U.S. is San Francisco's pragmatic, perceptive and somewhat excitable M. Justin Herman. San Franciscans were shocked into action by the state-built Embarcadero Freeway, which they discovered was barreling along the edge of town, cutting off the view of their cherished waterfront. The resultant outcry halted the expressway (which now leads to nothing in particular), and incidentally aroused the city's leaders into more...
...Herman's most sweeping project is the "Western Addition" just west of the downtown business district, where a Negro slum, eleven by four blocks, is being leveled and replaced by apartment houses, office buildings, a hospital, a medical building, garages, a Japanese Cultural and Trade Center and a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a 299-unit, successfully integrated cooperative. But more conspicuous is the Golden Gateway project at the foot of Telegraph Hill. On the site of the fragrant old Central Market, which was moved, like Philadelphia's, to more efficient, truck-oriented quarters far from the center of town, three...
...Died. Herman Doehler, 92, inventor of modern die-casting, who in 1906 patented a process for injecting molten metal under pressure between the halves of a steel die that proved quicker and more precise than hand-poured sand castings, thus paving the way for mass production of all manner of products and making Doehler Die Casting Co. (later Doehler-Jarvis) the biggest in the field; of uremia; in Manhattan...
...finished up by running the 1500 meters, last of the ten events, in 4:34.3. That gave Holdorf 7887 points and left Russia's fast-closing Rein Aum in second with 7842. Hans-Joachim Walde of Germany won the bronze medal with 7809 points and Paul Herman of the U.S. was fourth with...
...another development, the San Francisco Giants fired manager Alvin Dark at the Conclusion of their season yesterday. Coach Herman Franks was named Dark's successor...