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...suburban railroads in a single terminal, and also achieve one of the basic goals of city planning?the separation of wheeled traffic from pedestrian. Bacon's plan also includes widening the sidewalks of Chestnut Street, the city's other main shopping thoroughfare, and making a traffic-free mall of it, with little electric trolleys to carry shoppers...
...Pall Mall First. According to Analyst John C. Maxwell Jr., who keeps the most reliable count of this secretive market, American Tobacco's king-size Pall Mall is still the fastest seller, closely followed by R. J. Reynolds' Winston. Unfiltered Camel and Lucky Strike, which vied for first place until the late 1950s, are steadily losing favor. In a comeback attempt, American is test-marketing Lucky Strikes with a tobacco-flavored filter, has sent out Luckies' veteran, quick-tongued radio auctioneer, "Speed" ("Sold American!") Riggs, to promote them in stores throughout the South...
...long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument to St. Louis as Gateway to the West. A seven-block pedestrian mall shaded by trees and flanked by lawns is abuilding. Ground has been broken for a 1,100-car parking garage, first step in construction of a downtown sports stadium, designed by Edward Stone, that will seat 50,000, cost $89 million...
Northern Triangle. But the council, while keeping grandeur in mind, wants more than a nice street for inaugural parades. Pennsylvania Avenue is the hypotenuse of two triangles. One, bounded on the south by the Mall, is composed of existing federal buildings -the Department of Justice, the Post Office and Department of Commerce. The council now proposes to finish the northern triangle south of G Street, presently a junky commercial slum. The most striking feature would be a daring mezzanine that carries pedestrians over traffic. Lifting strollers over cars, it would bring people into shops, theaters, hotels and restaurants woven around...
...impressive. More than 181 acres of slums, amounting to roughly 85% of Norfolk's whole downtown area, have been knocked down and replaced with some $42 million worth of new buildings. Last week plans for a $100 million medical center were announced. A grassed and tree-lined pedestrian mall has replaced Main Street. The world's largest coal-loading dock has been built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and savings and loan assets have quadrupled in the past ten years. Population has doubled since the war. And with the bridge, the city will finally be converted from...