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...face the extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying cry in Panama is for the U.S. to give up sovereignty and control of the 557-sq.-mi. Canal Zone. The Zone has been under U.S. administration since the Americans opened the canal in 1914, and nationalist sentiment runs high in Panama to alter that Yankee domination...
...construction-gleaming office towers, bank headquarters and a handsome civic center for the arts-has rejuvenated much of the area. Over the past eight years, the city's businessmen have committed $800 million for downtown building and remodeling. By 1970, that investment will yield 9,000,000 sq. ft. of new office space, almost twice as much as was built downtown in the first 60 years of the century. In the process of rejuvenation, the old heart of Los Angeles is sprouting a skyline to match its aspirations as a commercial and cultural center of the West...
Safe from Quakes. An odd combination of economic forces lies behind the downtown rebirth. Transit-shy Angelenos rely almost entirely on autos to move around their 464-sq.-mi. city, whose boundaries could encompass the combined areas of St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Manhattan. While the auto made it easy for Los Angeles to sprawl, earthquake fears made it difficult for the city to grow vertically. Until 1959, a local ordinance limited buildings to a height of 150 feet or 13 stories, whichever was lower. The results of improved structural-testing techniques finally persuaded...
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 years ago to as much as $100 today, but businessmen seem undeterred. "The more there is, the more will happen," predicts Architect William L. Pereira. Honolulu's Dillingham Corp. plans a 1,000-room hotel, and the Broadway-Hale department-store chain is snapping up a site...
Inside, the 8,020-sq.-ft. gallery space offers a tabula rasa for which Director Werner Haftmann, 56, must act as a kind of architect-curator. Each time he mounts an exhibition, he will not only have to hang the pictures on the walls but also hang the walls-movable partitions that can be suspended in any arrangement by means of wires from the roof. "This is a very great work," said Director Haftmann last week. "But we've got to learn how to use it." For opening day, he showed that he is learning fast by mounting...