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He seems strangely unaffected by both the warm abrazos of old friends who had thought him dead, and by the shiny new skyscrapers of Málaga, the neon lights and the blaring sock-it-to-'em jukeboxes. What he likes best of all is to slip off the...
It all begins very swiftly in the glorious late-afternoon California sunshine. A short time after the earth starts to shudder, the huge, 20,000-sq.-mi. land mass west of the San Andreas fault wrenches itself free from the continent. San Francisco is quickly reduced to piles of rubble...
City Hall is different. It is modest. You can afford to be, when you have a history like Boston's. Names like Lowell, Cabot, Lodge, Peabody, Adams or Quincy have a certain presence which does not have to be heightened by skyscrapers or polished with chrome.
Sixteen new office skyscrapers have one up so far, including the 26-story City National Bank building and Occidental Life Insurance's elegant 32-story center, to which the company is currently adding an annex. The scramble for sites has lifted land prices from $20 per sq. ft. five...
Packwood is everything that Morse isn't: he's predictable, pragmatic, somewhat superficial, and in supreme contrast to Morse, bland. As Morse reflects the past, Packwood symbolizes Modern Oregon--the freeways along the Columbia, the Manhattan-like skyscrapers of down-town Portland. Packwood is a progressive Republican, somewhat along the...