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...Sixteen new office skyscrapers have one up so far, including the 26-story City National Bank building and Occidental Life Insurance's elegant 32-story center, to which the company is currently adding an annex. The scramble for sites has lifted land prices from $20 per sq. ft. five years ago to as much as $100 today, but businessmen seem undeterred. "The more there is, the more will happen," predicts Architect William L. Pereira. Honolulu's Dillingham Corp. plans a 1,000-room hotel, and the Broadway-Hale department-store chain is snapping up a site...
Junior Royce Shaw hurried to the wire in record time for his second victory in as many outings. Behind Shaw, six of the next ten finishers wore Harvard colors, as the Crimson ran its dual meet winning streak to sixteen...
...West, Coalition forces are following the well-established lead of California. The California Democratic Council (CDC), formed in the wake of the McCarthy-like Stevenson movement, rose over the past sixteen years to become the major grassroots political organization in a state with a long tradition of weak party organizations. Organized town by town into councils, the CDC has had an important influence on the party candidates and platform. In western states like Arizone, Washington, and Nebraska who have had similar traditions of relatively weak party machines, the CDC is being avidly copied...
...tried to determine if the faces on the cover were the key to a cipher, but were unable to break the code. Any attmpt to do this requires a key to the faces. "Sixteen" magazine published one last summer sometime. The gravest fault in the "Sixteen" key was that instead of admitting their ignorance when they couldn't identify a face, they called them all "Indian Gurus." There is an almost infinite number of ways a cipher could be built into the crowd of faces. It is a very frustrating way to spend a weekend...
Identity Search. Within three weeks, some 55 U.S. channels will forgo their prime-time schedule for a Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp. program called One Nation, Indivisible, a 3-to 31-hour inquiry into the race problem. Sixteen citizens, including a Bible-quoting white minister, a policeman and a housewife P.T.A. president, quietly discuss their feelings-and biases. In contrast to the fiery confrontations between white bigots and black militants that are all the rage on many public affairs shows, the Westinghouse production is an unsensational, subtle and at the same time shattering view of the unconscious prejudice prevalent...