Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, a 45-story office building would be lost in the crowd. In San Francisco it would not, especially if it were topped by a 220-ft. spire and had the overall shape of a very sharp pyramid. The building in question is the proposed $30 million head office of Transamerica Corporation. When erected, it will be the tallest building in the West, and the issues it raises go straight to the heart of one of the most vexing problems of urban planning: where should the line be drawn between private convenience and the public good, especially when the public...
...Manhattan, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously vetoed the Penn Central Company's second bid to build a $100 million office tower above Grand Central Terminal. To build it the company would either have to destroy Grand Central's facade (a superlative example of the ornate Beaux Arts style and a splendid climax to the long sweep of lower Park Avenue) or crowd it with a bland, impersonal slab set only 30 feet behind it. Either plan, the commission ruled, was unacceptable in a city already too poor in dramatic vistas. The commission's decision...
Last week a new and mighty expedition set sail in an effort to open the Northwest Passage to shipping. Manned by a 95-member party of sailors, scientists and newsmen, the 1,005-ft.-long tanker S.S. Manhattan eased out of her berth on the Delaware River near Chester, Pa., and set her course northward toward Greenland. From there the 115,000-ton ship, the most powerful in the U.S. merchant fleet, will turn westward into the passage itself, heading for Prudhoe Bay and the oilfields of Alaska's North Slope. Her mission is to test the feasibility...
...Humble Oil & Refining Co., Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum, the Manhattan's voyage is a rather costly gamble. The companies have spent nearly $40 million readying the ship and crew, and the stakes are even higher. What could be the country's largest oil reserves have been discovered under the snows of the remote North Slope, but the distance and weather conditions raise drilling costs to double those for bringing oil out of the ground in the U.S. In order to sell the Alaska oil at competitive prices, Humble and its partners must find an economical...
...more than 300 locations from coast to coast. It offers seats to a wide variety of entertainment, including the U.S. Open Tennis matches in Forest Hills, N.Y., the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Old Pool Farm, Pa., the home games of six major-league baseball teams and most events at Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. According to President John Quinn Jr., T.R.S. now sells 1,000,000 tickets a month and expects to break even by late...