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...attempt to get the "line of flight" of automobiles passing through the Square, Campbell's men ask the motorist three questions...
...another on the plaza's perimeter and to provide extra parking facilities. To get commercial traffic out of the way, he built a delivery tunnel beneath the stores. Alongside the tunnel, but burrowing three stories below, he built a 2,000-car garage, provided escalators to whisk the motorist to the plaza level. In the spacious, columned malls and arcades he put gardens and sculptures. To add a town-square touch, he designed sidewalk cafes, planted trees, and put benches beneath them for the tired shopper or any idler who wanted to stop for a gossip. As a centerpiece...
Sherwood Harry Egbert, president of Studebaker-Packard, barreled down the test track at the company's South Bend plant one day last week in a sleek sports coupe, the likes of which no U.S. motorist has ever seen. Still shrouded in deep corporate secrecy, the new car was nonetheless already the talk of Detroit. Christened Avanti (Italian for "Forward"), it is finless, aerodynamically clean, and fast; it may well prove the most talked-of car turned out by any U.S. automaker since Ford Motor Co. introduced its first Thunderbird...
...Cockroaches." On his way to the gleaming new office buildings and hotels, the motorist often sees the least attractive side of many big cities: blight. Cities have always had their slums, but they are no longer taken for granted. With $16.3 billion allocated for urban renewal across the U.S. since 1949 ($2.5 billion by the Federal Government), the battle against blight is slowly being won. New York's urban renewal program has consumed as much money as the programs of all other U.S. cities, has cleared 7,000 badly blighted acres. Boston has a far-reaching urban renewal program...
...motor inn, things are different. The motorist can drive up, sign in, and often keep his car right outside his door. In some multifloored motor inns, the guest drives his car up ramps and leaves it outside his room: in other cases, it is parked directly beneath. From the moment he checks in, the guest has direct access from room to car, never has to clean up the children to run the gamut of a lobby, never has to wait for an attendant to bring the car around from the garage...