Word: scrapers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number 1,500,000 in the U.S., 1,800,000 in the world. Last week New York State's Mormons announced that they would build a new headquarters: a 30-to 40-story sky scraper on 58th Street in Manhattan. It will have a chapel, an information center, an auditorium, and office space to lease to businesses. * A nephew of American Motors President George Romney, who also has a son, Scott, 20, serving in Britain...
...given weekday, the 16-sky-scraper complex of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center is likely to contain 38,000 office workers and 160,000 assorted shoppers, sightseers, and moviegoers at the Radio City Music Hall. Could those crowds survive the hazards of radiation if a nuclear bomb fell on New York? Last week, deciding that the answer could be yes, Rockefeller Center, Inc. announced the start of a fallout shelter program that may well be the largest undertaking of its kind in the country...