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The skyline of Manhattan-or of any other metropolis-would be completely different were it not for the Otis Elevator Co. Founder Elisha Graves Otis made the first safe and practical elevator in the middle of the 19th century. When steel beams and hanging walls made skyscrapers structurally possible, it...
In Los Angeles, a city of transplanted small-towners, the Times caters to that persistent curiosity with a staff of 50 local reporters and acres of community news. It goes even further and offers something special in the way of chatty, back-fence journalism. In a column called "On the...
In May of 1956, Alfred Vellucci introduced before the Cambridge City Council three unmistakably provocative resolutions in the spiteful breadth of one week: that all of Harvard's property be confiscated and converted into parking space; this failing, that Harvard be declared an independent metropolis separate from Cambridge; and this...
From the mucky waters of Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Channel sluggishly winds 50 miles into southern Texas. From both banks, scrubby rangeland and salt marshes stretch to the horizon, relieved occasionally by a decrepit farmhouse or a forlorn oil rig. Then suddenly, around one...
In keeping with its big-city status, Houston has acquired the appurtenances of a modern U.S. metropolis, from big-league baseball and big-league football (the Houston Oilers. 1960 and 1961 champs of the American Football League) to a Museum of Fine Arts headed by James Johnson Sweeney, and a...