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...there is a notable exception: Atlanta's new, $18 million, 800-room Regency Hyatt House, the city's first high-rise hotel in 40 years and the biggest in the South outside Miami. "Our main goal," says the hotel designer, Atlanta Architect John C. Portman, "was to get a feeling of complete openness-the complete antithesis of the typical hotel today...
...Portman, 42, is an enterprising developer as well as an architect, who has played leading roles wearing both hats in creating San Francisco's projected Embarcadero Center (TIME, Feb. 24) and Atlanta's own downtown Peachtree Center, of which the hotel is a part. With an eye to both urban development and showmanship, he has gone all out toward making Regency Hyatt House a civic showpiece...
...hotel's courtyard that it looks like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon -and it takes two gardeners a full week to water it all. Five bubble-shaped, glass-enclosed elevators streak up and down a huge column at one side of the courtyard; they are programmed, says Portman, to create "kinetic architecture." Water from a 70-ft. fountain cascades down along strips of clear plastic...
...Rockefeller brothers, whose father built Rockefeller Center, will own only half of the Golden Gate version. The other half is split equally among three fast-rising developers whose offices, apartments, hotels, shopping centers and warehouses span the nation. Atlanta Architect John Portman, 42, designer and managing partner of the San Francisco project, and Trammell Crow, 52, a wealthy Dallas realty investor, have already transformed the downtown skyline of Atlanta with their $50 million Peachtree Center of offices, a hotel and a trade mart. Dallas-based Cloyce K. Box, 43, onetime (1949-54) speedy end for the Detroit Lions professional football...
...territorial waters off Greenland. The captain can scarcely restrain his thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former German U-boat commander (Eric Portman) on advisory duty, and by a Negro reporter-photographer (Sidney Poitier). The man to watch, though, is a jumpy young officer (James MacArthur) with all that ASROC firepower at his fingertips...