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ROBERT H. GERDES Chairman, Executive Committee Pacific Gas and Electric Co. San Francisco...
...most cogent objection is to the building's location in the heart of San Francisco's "Portsmouth corridor," natural valley between Telegraph Hill and the clustered towers of lower Market Street. The valley is covered with low structures that climb up Telegraph Hill, hugging its contours and accentuating San Francisco's natural rhythm of hills and valleys. It is an area of narrow streets and small lots, and zoning authorities thought they had forestalled any skyscraper-high structure by stipulating that total floor space in new buildings could not exceed 14 times the area of the site...
Ironically, one of the needle's chief critics is San Francisco's Planning Director Allan B. Jacobs (whose powers, however, are strictly advisory). "This is unmistakably a 'look-at-me' building that does not complement the buildings near it," he says. Architecture Critic Wolf von Eckardt questions the function of the spire: "Is [it] to stamp a Transamerica Corporation trademark on one of the most breathtaking skylines in the world?" The Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects argued that Transamerica could save the skyline and fulfill all its space requirements in a building...
Despite such criticism, there is little chance that the needle will not go up. Transamerica's building has the backing of Mayor Joseph Alioto ("a very welcome addition to the city's skyline"), the San Francisco Chronicle ("will become one of the best known structures in the world"), and leading businessmen who are worried about the recent flight of major firms to less congested sites on the other side of the Bay. Last week San Francisco's Board of Supervisors removed the last obstacle to construction when it granted Transamerica the right to close off and build...
Phillips, 26, who presented his findings to this week's convention of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, initially checked the death dates of 1,251 famous Americans listed in Who Was Who and Four Hundred Notable Americans. He found that death came for them least often during the months before their birthdays and most frequently during the three months afterward. Turning to cities that have kept precise death records, he discovered that between 1875 and 1915 the death rate in Budapest, which had a large population of Jews, declined markedly during the month before Yom Kippur...