Word: skyscraperism
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As carefully and deliberately as an architect planning a skyscraper, the Republican Convention drew its 1964 platform design to the political and philosophical specifications of Barry Goldwater.
While Zeckendorf reeled and dealed to cover his debt, the revenues he had expected to rescue him failed to materialize. Freedomland, a pale Bronx imitation of Disneyland, lost $5.4 million. Place Ville Marie, a skyscraper show place in Montreal, lost another $4.5 million, and Webb & Knapp (Canada) no longer controls...
The company has diversified into chemicals, fiber glass and heating units, but frit still accounts for 45% of its sales. Though enamel has largely disappeared from pots and pans, and stoves are often made of stainless steel nowadays, Ferro has made up for such losses by aggressively seeking out new...
Saturday, April 4 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Britain's Grand National Steeplechase, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro as commentator; also the National Billiard Championships in New York. SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Fourteen Hours, Richard Basehart wrestles...
Recently the European cranes have been migrating across the Atlantic in increasing numbers. More than 450 of them are at work-on buildings from Eero Saarinen's 38-story CBS skyscraper in Manhattan to Los Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers...