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The jet swoops past the great city rising from the water's edge toward the towering Peak-shipyards, smoking factories, villas drowned in gardens, balconied tenements, squatters' huts clinging to bare rock, bright new skyscrapers still wrapped in bamboo scaffolding. Coming in low over rooftops fluttering with blue...
Back in his adopted Himalaya skyscrapers for a closer look at the evasive Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest in 1953, decided to extend the expedition. Reason: having earlier discovered some strange pawprints at high altitudes in the snow, Sir Edmund was...
After denouncing everybody else's skyscrapers, Frank Lloyd Wright in the latter days of his life wished to turn cities into grand parks surrounding a few mile-high office buildings that would lodge the city's entire work force. Each rapier-like 528-story building would have atomic...
Skyscrapers Going Up. Governor Magalhaes has run Bahia before, as one of the tough lieutenants of the late Getulio Vargas after Vargas took dictatorial control of Brazil in the 1930 revolution. Now the 55-year-old former revolutionary likes to explain that he puts his faith in his rosary rather...
In Salvador a dozen skyscrapers are under construction. Two new hotels will soon join the Hotel da Bahia to catch the swelling tourist trade, and the modernistic, 2,000-seat Castro Alves Theater has been rebuilt after its destruction by fire two years ago. The University of Bahia, which last...