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Sartre & Peale. Rescue workers had to break through walls in at least three skyscrapers to get to elevator shafts and release some 75 passengers. One man trapped in an RCA Building elevator for 20 hours gave his three companions a course in yoga positions?including standing on his head. At...
Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev, manhandled by the Manhattan critics, was in a black mood. It was 1919 and he was wandering forlornly through Central Park. Looking up at the surrounding skyscrapers, he thought "of all the wonderful orchestras in America that cared nothing about my music." He had come "too...
Battlements on the Plain. "Corbu" tackled city planning before anyone dreamed that cities should or could be planned. He designed elevated freeways to make downtowns more accessible when Los Angeles was still getting used to stop lights. He envisaged cities with skyscrapers set in green spaces. He developed the original...
Almost anyone can spot the glaring flaws in this sentence: "I ain't got no pencil." But the English language can set subtler traps. What's the difference, for instance, between sewerage and sewage? Is the word "whereabouts" singular or plural? When does a pupil become a student...
Cities Service badly needs a manager. It has dropped from ninth to eleventh place as an oil and gas producer, six weeks ago changed its brand name to Citgo and its pumps from green and white to red, white and blue to stimulate sales. The company has diversified into copper...