Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HILTON HOTELS CORP., which already controls three Manhattan hotels (WaldorfAstoria, Plaza, Statler), will take over the Savoy-Plaza early next year. In stock swap, Hilton will give about $15 million worth of its securities for 1,000-room hotel...
Scheduled for 1960 completion, the $75 million Astor Plaza will have a rooftop helicopter landing field, a sub-basement garage, a sunken garden, subterranean passages to funnel its 10,000 workers to nearby subways. Architects Robert Carson and Earl Lundin plan to set the metal and glass-faced tower back from the thoroughfare, flank it with one- and two-storied shops and restaurants to give emphasis to the slab construction...
...Astor announcement highlighted the march of U.S. industrial headquarters on Manhattan Island toward the upper East Side, particularly Park Avenue. Once the barracks of New York's upper crust, Park Avenue is becoming the prestige address of U.S. business. From its new Park Avenue perch, the Astor Plaza will look southward on the bronze-skinned, 38-story House of Seagram, now a building on the next block, westward at blue-green Lever House, just across Park Avenue. Within a radius of two blocks on Park Avenue, four other office buildings are going up, while buildings have been completed...
...more than sing. But today a popular singer is apt to put on an elaborate production that calls for scriptwriters, stage director, musical director, arranger, piano accompanist, set designer and dress designers. Last week in her one-woman show in the Persian Room of Manhattan's staid old Plaza Hotel, Songbird Lisa Kirk used all of this paraphernalia to display as much of her shapely figure as the law allows. But between her entrance and exit in scanties, she did manage to sing...
...office, staged an uprising in Manabi province, and Liberal Deputies tried to organize a no-quorum strike to prevent Congress from declaring him President-elect. Both attempts failed. Out going President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, most of the armed-forces brass and an apparent majority of run-of-the-plaza Ecuadorians wanted to see Ponce take office for the sake of constitutional order...