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JOHNSON'S WAX. Filmmakers Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid traversed three continents to produce a movie that is fast, fresh and free of commercialism. To Be Alive! opens on Manhattan's midtown madness, then starts life over again and leads the spectator along the joyous paths of childhood...
...sometime Harvard student and socialist agitator was arrested in New York Saturday, and charged with disorderly conduct. Albert Maher '63, who plans to return in the fall as a junior, was one of 17 persons participating in a midtown rally protesting U.S. activities in Vietnam...
...THINK," commanded the framed signs in IBM's 20-story headquarters in midtown Manhattan. The more IBM's executives thought, the more they concluded that they and their employees might be a lot happier away from the concrete and polluted air, working somewhere out in the country. Last week IBM settled the last of its employees into its new world headquarters in the sleepy and silvan village of Armonk (pop. 1,100), located 30 miles north of Manhattan in New York's wealthy Westchester County...
...aorta. Here is Frank's Restaurant, crowded with white merchants at lunchtime, but thronged at dinnertime with middle-class Negroes, who are served with unctuous concern by white waiters. Here is Blumstein's, the only real department store in Harlem, but hardly a match for a midtown five and clime. And here is the Baby Grand, where Nipsey Russell's successor, Comedian Ray Scott, folds his hands, raises his eyes and beseeches...
...some $2 billion worth of major construction is under way or planned in the metropolitan area. A 454-acre midtown tract of slums called Mill Creek Valley, filled with slum housing that cried out for rebuilding in 1954, is now one of the largest urban-renewal areas in the U.S. A substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The 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...