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...oversees a nationwide enterprise with offices in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C. In his long career he has presided over more than $3 billion worth of construction. It began with the beaver board exuberance of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It led on to some of the largest and handsomest corporate structures anywhere, ranging from Manhattan's Lever House to San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach building. It raised Owings to national prominence as head of the presidential commission to replan the capital's Pennsylvania Avenue. Above all, Owings is engaged, along with many...
...instance, to criticize Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even further. His attempts at small talk fall flat. On a Portland television program, he told listeners his secret for staying trim. "I eat proteins," he said. "I eat a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese. I eat cottage cheese until it runs out my ears. And one thing I do that makes it not too bad is I put ketchup...
...Portland boy who worked for U.P. that...
LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "We Will Speak, Who Will Answer?" The people of Portland, Ore., speak and answer in this second part of a series that studies the ways in which eight different cities are handling race relations, housing and other problems through community action...
...American Institute of Architects is presenting its Gold Medal to Marcel Breuer this week. It may be a good thing this is happening in Portland, Ore., 2,445 miles away from Manhattan, where such an award ceremony right now would be sure to bring out pickets. Why would anybody want to picket Breuer, a kindly man of 66 and a distinguished architect whose Whitney Museum is one of the finest things that any designer has done for Manhattan in years? Because last week Breuer unveiled his plans for a $100 million, 55-story office building-to be placed...