Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation. Charting Fort Worth's growth, Gruen's planners estimated that 1970 would see 152,000 cars downtown, twice today's total. They advised against widening streets, instead visualized a beltway from which cars would pull into multistory parking garages pronged toward the heart of the site; no central city building would be more distant from a parking space than 2½ minutes' walking time. Small shuttle cars would carry the infirm and lazy...
Saarinen's design was selected from among plans submitted by eight leading U.S. architectural firms. The problem set by the State Department's Foreign Buildings Operations: design a building "which is distinguished and will reflect credit on the United States," yet remain "appropriate to the site and country." Surveying the site during a trip to London last year, Saarinen (whose most recent projects have been General Motors' $68 million Technical Center in Detroit and M.I.T.'s tricornered Kresge Auditorium and cylindrical chapel-TIME, Dec. 5) decided to scale his building to the proportions of the square...
...University has already offered the Advocate a site for its building, at 21 South Street, next to the H.A.A. If all goes well, accordig to Ratte, construction will start in July with completion scheduled for December...
...Phoenix; Westinghouse is building in Youngwood, Pa. and Sprague Electric in Concord, N.H. ; Philco bought a 100,000-sq.-ft. factory in Spring City, Pa., RCA is moving into a 120,000-sq.-ft. factory at Bridgewater, N.J.; Texas Instruments Co. is planning a plant on a 250-acre site near Dallas; and Raytheon is expanding its Newton, Mass, facilities...
...standing in front of a mirror and trying to shave. Myrna Loy, as his wife, Muriel Blandings, and Melvyn Douglas, the old lawyer friend, are also old hands. Under such sure guidance, the movie grinds itself out at the Blandings bathroom mirror or in front of the Blandings building site...