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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President tried out his idea on his advisers. Then, after dinner, he put in a transatlantic call to Sir Winston Churchill. It was towards midnight in London, but the old Prime Minister was still up, and delighted at the proposal. He suggested Bermuda as a conference site, agreed that late June (after the coronation, and after an Eisenhower trip to the Midwest) would be fine. Eisenhower phoned Mayer, who was pleased too, although he dropped out of the picture the next day when his government was overthrown...
Last week the first steps were taken to rear a Rockefeller Center-like group of buildings on the site, thus improve all the blighted areas around the old station. The Pennsy announced that it has leased the block-square station land to Manhattan's Uris Bros., a pair of redheaded New Yorkers who in the last five years have become the world's biggest builders of office buildings. By year's end they will control seven buildings valued at $70 million, in which their interest is estimated at $20 million...
Typical is the 25-story, $25 million office building now being completed on the site of the famed old Ritz-Carlton Hotel (TIME, May 14, 1951). Behind a high fence and a sidewalk canopy, work has proceeded with machinelike smoothness on a painstakingly detailed schedule. Few materials are piled on the sidewalk or in the streets, because most of the materials are brought to the site only when needed. A steady stream of trucks flows in & out of the building, just fast enough to keep the steel girders climbing skyward and a supply of concrete and bricks on hand...
After countless sketches, Designers Zehrfuss, Nervi and Breuer had hit on an unusual, Y-shaped Secretariat, gracefully modern yet low enough (seven stories) to fit into a new site near the Eiffel Tower without overshadowing the classical architecture of neighboring buildings. The new plan calls for a building resting lightly on stiltlike pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates...
...into a close facsimile of Princeton or New Haven. One newspaper predicted 200,000 spectators. Arrangements were made for "alumni villages" for all the competing colleges. Hains Point was flooded with Washington cops, beer and hot dog concessions, roped off areas, beflagged grandstands, parking lots, and looked like the site of a state fair. But the W.R.A. was a little too concerned with making a big impression, and proved themselves to be rank amateurs at the job of running regattas...