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...since the 1930s when Rockefeller Center pushed skyward in defiance of the Depression, and the 1940s when top architects from around the world gathered to build the glass-slab United Nations Secretariat, has Manhattan had such a big-scale architectural project with a claim to worldwide attention. The project of the 1950s and 1960s, previewed last week, is the $75 million, eleven-acre development for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan's West 60s. With about half the money pledged and most legal roadblocks cleared. Lincoln Center President John D. Rockefeller III took the wraps...
Aluminum Village. Near Riverview, Fla., Housing Developer John Stalling offered houses of fabricated aluminum with 470 sq. ft. of living area plus porch and carport for $5,999. Aluminum panels with honeycombed insulation are bolted to a concrete slab foundation, which has sewage and water pipes already installed. Designed for retired couples on limited incomes, the little houses have electric outlets three feet above the floor, guard rails around the bathtubs, ramps at the doors. Stalling, 75 himself, is aiming at a 2,500-home village...
MANHATTAN'S ASTOR PLAZA, bogged down for lack of funds, will be rescued bv First National City Bank, third biggest in U.S. Bank will take over lease on Park Avenue site, between 53rd and 54th Streets, where Vincent Astor intended to erect $75 million slab skyscraper (TIME. Oct. 1, 1956). will put up a building...
This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile...
Hydraulic Stretch. The surveying had to be done at night because daytime heat foiled the accuracy of the surveyors' instruments. The next step was to pour a continuous slab of reinforced concrete 6½ miles long with adjustable fasteners for the rails, which are 7 ft. apart and three times as heavy as railroad rails. They came in 3Q-ft. sections and were welded together on the spot into 10,000-ft. lengths. Merely fastening them to the concrete slab would not do; the temperature of the Tularosa Basin fluctuates between zero and 120°F. If the rails...