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Flowing Westward. Not since U.S. Steel decided in 1905 to put a plant on the hunk of Lake Michigan sand that is now Gary, Ind., has a private project had such opportunity to change an entire area. The mill will start off employing 2,500 people in a plant for finishing rolled steel shipped from the East. Jones & Laughlin hopes that the plant will eventually be completely integrated from blast furnaces on up, expects it to generate satellite manufacturing industries to use its steel. Says Jones & Laughlin Chairman Charles M. Beeghly: "We are talking about the largest single development...
...Twelve miles east of Southampton is East Hampton. In both Hamptons the ocean influences everything. Its pounding surf has created an unbroken beach of pure, soft, white sand. Moisture from the ocean causes a heavy dew at night so that golf courses rarely need water on their fairways. In general, the Hamptons are as rigidly socially conscious as Newport, and when snobbery has reared its gelid head it has sometimes been intensified by the rivalry between the two communities. For years, Southampton claimed a social edge. It had tighter restrictions on who could buy property in the community...
...Rudolph. Many of them have interior-court swimming pools, open to the sky but screened against flying insects. Aside from a Robert Trent Jonesdesigned golf course, featuring a famed 9th hole where the player must drive the ball across 100 ft. of water to a green surrounded by five sand traps, Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre hunting preserve, stocked with turkey, quail and mallard duck. Judge Harold Medina each winter rents a one-bedroom-and-parlor suite overlooking the Atlantic. When Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge visits the resort, he stays with his sister...
...history: one hole (the 17th) measured 606 yds. from tee to green. "Ridiculous," said Julius Boros. Another pro wailed that the fairways were so narrow, "you have to walk them single file." Ditches and water hazards bisected twelve of the 18 holes-to say nothing of 74 sand traps, 6-in.-deep Bermuda rough, and the big, slick greens. Complained one golfer: "It's like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the fourth step...
...over page), also goes all out for adornment. "I want my buildings to be exuberant," says the 42-year-old architect, who also is an abstract painter. His industrial structure too is a box, 200 ft. by 200 ft. square. But with its elaborate zigzag carapace of sand-pink precast concrete blocks, Lundy's building proclaims the architect's belief in sculptural architecture. "The building is sassy, square and solid," says Lundy. "It says...