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...shovel of earth at groundbreaking ceremonies for Washington's $46 million John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Construction will get under way next summer...
...Sophs Shovel...
Just over a mile away, at the edge of the oldest part of town, a power shovel clawed out a hole for a swimming pool beside the most elegant recent addition to Philadelphia's skyline, the three Society Hill apartment towers by Architect I. M. Pei. Around them, through what was a disheveled market area five years ago, stretch the broad lawns of a five-acre plaza, and in this historic neighborhood, remodelers were busy restoring to their original elegance dozens of 18th century row houses that had most recently been seedy boardinghouses. To the southwest, work began...
...Remember, these are the people who want to bury us," he said. "I don't want to be the one who hands them the shovel...
Resolution Kept. Murdock has by no means laid aside the silver-plated shovel he uses for all his ground-breaking ceremonies, even though Phoenix is temporarily overbuilt. He has developed 552 million worth of real estate since 1960, and recently he met with Transamerica Corp. officials who are interested in building a new apartment-hotel-shopping complex in Phoenix. With all this activity, he has hardly had time to revise the New Year's resolution he made in 1961: to make his company, then valued at $25 million, a $100 million enterprise within five years. He has already surpassed...