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- Old vaudeville joke In addition to being the butt of tired jokes, Newark (pop. 465.600) used to be a sprawling municipal Skid Row choking in its own web of rail lines, express high ways and traffic-snarled streets. The sun, rising above Manhattan's skyscrapers ten miles away, glinted...
Reporter Kinmond, a Canadian citizen and thus unaffected by the U.S. State Department's refusal to allow newsmen into Red China (TIME, May 6), found a "nation in a hurry." a land of often violent contrast, where one-story brick huts jostle jerry-built skyscrapers, contraception clinics adjoin pagodas...
In 1951 Denny McCluggage suddenly became dissatisfied with San Francisco ("I felt I owned it"), and set out for New York to "tilt with skyscrapers." For the first six months, the skyscrapers knocked her flat; while laying siege to the Herald Tribune (because another woman, far-traveling Marguerite Higgins, had...
Last week the San Andreas Fault system shrugged again. A soundless, polite waver wiggled skyscrapers, floors and desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the...
The giants are only a fraction of the Pru's business. At President Shanks's direction, the company pours an even bigger chunk of its treasure into mortgages and loans to individuals and small businessmen. All told, $6.1 billion of the Pru's assets, some 46%, is...