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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heir Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, 44, owner of a 650-acre plantation on St. John, small (12,200 acres), unspoiled (only one hotel) gem of the Virgin Islands, offered his land as a site for the first U.S. National Park in the Caribbean. Holder of options on about half the island, Conservationist Rockefeller hoped to pick them up, eventually hand over about two-thirds of St. John...
...vertical steel tubes that are driven into the sea floor by hydraulic jacks. The upper deck rides 50 ft. above the water and supports the drill rig; the lower platform is flooded and slides down the tubes to squat on the bottom for better anchorage. To move to another site, the lower deck is pumped out and refloated, and the "legs" are pulled back up. The main barge is connected to another, slightly smaller service barge with engine rooms, crew's quarters, helicopter platform, etc.. by a narrow steel gangway. Thus, say oilmen, Mr. Gus should be even...
When the news was announced, the store's independent union of clerks rallied round, started collecting a fund to buy the store and keep it going, suggested a price of $12,500,000 for building, site and fixtures. Union President Paul Milling said that members pledged about $2,000,000, and "two of the biggest Wall Street bankers were very receptive" to helping with the balance. At week's end Wanamaker's was still dickering with the union about selling out, but chances looked dim that the store would continue...
...Howard, still reeling from last fall's municipal crackdown on burlesque, may soon become the site of a modern parking structure. City officials are studying the proposal and will hold a hearing Nov. 18 to detect public reaction to the project...
Hopeful of finding a place for art even in the market, the Uris brothers last month installed a bleak bronze by Sculptor Henry Moore in the stark, cavernous lobby of a building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think...