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Peddlers & Patriarchs. East Siders would not have wondered. For nearly 60 years the Alliance has been more than a family to thousands who live south of Union Square between the East River and the Bowery. The squat, six-story building, once a skyscraper among tight-packed tenements, has been a...
Linkletter is probably the most notable living native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His parents moved to California when he was six, and Art worked his way through San Diego State College, won his varsity letter at basketball and swimming. A big (6 ft. i in., 210 Ibs.) and serious-minded...
There will be a few important differences. Where U.N.'s skyscraper slab rises 39 stories, UNESCO's is planned for only 16; where the U.N. spent $67.5 million, UNESCO expects to spent $7,678,000. Instead of adopting air-conditioning throughout, as U.N. did, UNESCO plans to keep...
Perceptive Europeans have long noted with bewilderment the apparent contradiction between the American tendency toward economic change and American political conservatism. Both are found to the nth degree in Texas. When the Republic National Bank decided to build in Dallas the tallest skyscraper in Texas, it tore down a six...
New Directions. The U.N. buildings have consumed most of Harrison's time since the war, but he has also been branching out in other directions. In Dallas, he is putting up a 500-ft. Secretariat-like office for the Republic National Bank, the tallest skyscraper ever built in the...