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...claims to be the "world's largest commercial office building." (On the grounds that the Pentagon is not commercial and Chicago's Merchandise Mart is an exhibition hall as well as an office building.) It will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine...
Peachtree Street was never before like this. Handsome stone-and-glass office and apartment buildings are sprouting all over Atlanta. In the past two years workmen put the finishing touches on such major new downtown structures as a 22-story, $12 million Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and a 31-story headquarters for the Bank of Georgia, loftiest skyscraper in the Southeast. This year city officials expect to issue around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate...
...prices would result in a 3.5% increase in the price of everything the Defense Department buys, whether it has any steel in it or not. *Along with recording ups and downs of steel prices, the Dow Jones ticker carried a report that Chicago's huge, 18-story Merchandise Mart was planning to boost rents 3% to 5% because of "higher operating costs, principally labor and taxes." Owner of the Merchandise Mart: Joseph P. Kennedy, father of the President...
...alltime world long-run record, however, is still held by the Los Angeles Theatre Mart's 1933 revival of The Drunkard, which closed in 1959 after 9,477 performances...
...Hodeir's view, Barraqué's Séquence for soprano and chamber orchestra is one of the "rare works in the history of music," and "the greatest piece of music written in Europe since Debussy's last period." Barraqué's unfinished La Mart de Virgile, to which he expects to devote the rest of his life, is more "monumental than anything ever conceived in the past." According to the composer, it will be scored for four different orchestras and four choruses (small, medium, large, huge), and take 17 hours to perform. "It doesn...