Word: manhattan
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...tower soars like a silver silo above the Georgia heartland. In Los Angeles, the flat megalopolis that was supposed to spread ever outward, new towers sprout like asparagus. Windswept Oklahoma City, a dramatic vertical statement in the horizontal world of the Western plains, strikes the eye like a mini-Manhattan. Denver's Skyline project, one of the best urban renewal efforts in America, is alive and well named: since 1970, six new towers have poked high against the backdrop of the Rockies, and more are planned. In Kansas City, where once "they went and built a skyscraper seven stories...
Brave New Town. The enticements of Roosevelt Island-a 147-acre, 2 ½ -mile sliver in the East River-start with well-designed urban housing. The buildings contain grade school classrooms and shops, though Manhattan is only 31/2 minutes away by aerial tramway (TIME, May 24). There is even a pneumatic garbage system that whisks household refuse to a central disposal plant. Perhaps most important, and maybe at some risk, Roosevelt Island mixes income groups-rich, middle class and poor. Opened late last year, the project has leased one-third of its 2,100 rental units and sold...
...From the musical, Oklahoma, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. *In the past decade, more than 100 office towers were built in Manhattan. About one square mile of office space is vacant, including roughly 33% of the 110-story World Trade Center's twin towers...
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...send the tourist past a white farmhouse down a rutted dirt road and bring him to a desolate cove on Lake Champlain that has changed little since. Benedict Arnold, then a hero still, burned his ships there after holding back the British fleet in the fall of 1776. In Manhattan, Stember can startle a reader with the intelligence that a field where Washington's raggedy men knelt to fire is now the corner of Broadway and 116th Street. Volume III is remarkable in following the often neglected fighting that took place late in the war in the Carolinas, pitting...