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...Chicago, testy old (87) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright casually disclosed his latest high-flown fantasy: a one-mile-high, 510-story office building for the Loop. Topped with a 330-ft. TV antenna, it would be four times taller than the Empire State Building. "It's perfectly scientific, and perfectly feasible," he said, brushing aside questions on how he would get 100,000 office workers in and out of the building on time, or what he would do about the planes that cross the area at considerably less than 5,600 ft. "If you're going to have...
Separated from the rest of Rome by a loop of the muddy Tiber River, the people of the tough, teeming, poverty-ridden district known as Trastevere (meaning: across the Tiber) have thought of themselves as a people apart ever since the time of the Roman Empire. In those days, the gladiators of Trastevere put on the best and bloodiest shows of all, just as today Trastevere's tough soccer players are the best in all Italy. Many another superlative can be applied to Trastevere; its poverty is the deepest, its streets and alleyways the most crowded, its feasting...
Inevitably, the bookie joints unfurled in the Chicago Loop last week like so many Fourth of July flags. Processing the bets were highly organized wire rooms where the big bookies sat at banks of telephones, raked in a take every dollar as good as the rackets produced in Capone's heyday. All this confirmed the Crime Commission's long-held fear that the town would be opened up shortly after last year's election...
...body and attach the cut end of the ileum to the colon. But this was a relatively long and bloody procedure. It gave no better results than two types of bypass operations, which came into fashion next (see diagram). In one, the type performed on Ike, a healthy loop of ileum is drawn up and spliced into the colon, but the diseased section is left in place. This is "bypass without exclusion." In the other, the diseased ileum is cut off, and its open end is stitched shut; it is left dangling. This is "bypass with exclusion...
...terminated and any attempt at blackmail will be strenuously resisted ... He is the patsy and I want him never to forget it. I'm getting mad at him already . . ." Last week Steinbeck picked his "queen's animal." Tom Deutschle, 38, ex-Chicago Sun newshawk and now a Loop pressagent, agreed to take the masochistic assignment...