Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Works of genius can really mix up a neighborhood, or so some residents of West Hartford, Conn, maintain. Two years ago the nation's most noted architect, 81-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright, designed a theater for West Hartford, and ever since then the townspeople have been squabbling about whether it should be built. Wright's backers recently proposed a referendum to decide the issue, but last week his opponents got a temporary injunction to stop it. That brought the old man himself roaring down on them out of the West...
...merger will move Manufacturers up from sixth to fifth biggest U.S. bank.† with more than 100 branches, and the largest neighborhood banking service in one city in the world. This new eminence will be no strain on Manufacturers' President Harvey Dow Gibson. In his nearly 20 years as president of Manufacturers Trust, the bank has already swallowed up six smaller banks, and with this merger has boosted its deposits from $219 million to $2.3 billion. Gibson, who works as hard as any of his banking colleagues, and at 68 plays harder than most of them, still finds time...
...time fixed charges (e.g., interest on the $257 billion national debt) were included and President Truman's new $4 billion for European military aid and $11.6 billion for additional arms were added, the U.S. budget would be in the neighborhood of $57 billion for this year...
Through A Sportsman's Notebook wanders a central character, a game hunter who is presumably Turgenev himself. Gradually he comes to know the masters and peasants, the clerks and traders of the neighborhood in which he shoots. The sketches begin and end on a hushed note, soft with the echoes of a summer day in the forest. Turgenev makes his points mutely rather than melodramatically...
Promising the viewer "double-feature enjoyment right in his own armchair," Ford Movie Night (Mon. 7 130 p.m., Manhattan station WOR-TV) this week went into direct competition with neighborhood movie theaters...