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SINCLAIR LEWIS, that old village atheist, ironically professed to see American skyscrapers as cathedrals; the commercial towers of Babbitt's home town "aspired above the morning mists." In the booming cities of the '50s, it is not only skyscrapers that are rising from the ground. The U.S. is...
The French are determined to hang onto North Africa. The richest and most troubled part of it is Morocco. Larger than California and potentially as productive, Morocco is corrugated by the ranges of the Atlas Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the...
We're in love, in love, in love, in love - and how! We're madly, madly, madly in love with ourselves. We know how to manufacture things (we know how, we know how) From baby cars to aircraft wings (we know how, we know how) We know how...
Most parking experts feel that cities can no longer permit real-estate men to put up new skyscrapers and huge apartments and let somebody else worry about the traffic and parking problems they bring. It looks as if the time will soon come when all big cities will have to...
Easy Breathing. Hirshhorn's own story is as American as skyscrapers. A poor Brooklyn boy who did not finish high school, he started work on Wall Street at 14, made his first million at 28. "That's on record," he says happily, at 55, "and after the first...