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...bottom. Marine "farming" of fish and plant life may eventually be essential to feed the world's burgeoning population. As deposits of minerals, oil and gas are depleted, the virtually untapped resources lying on and beneath the ocean floor become increasingly attractive to industry. In 2,500,000 sq. mi. of offshore area, the U.S. alone has petroleum reserves estimated at 3.2 trillion...
...following World War II, including all its holdings in rent-controlled New York City. The emphasis now is on a different kind of operation. Today the company operates 23 large office buildings, mostly in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Cleveland; it owns more office space (5,775,000 sq. ft.) than the total available in Denver, Atlanta or Kansas City. The buildings win few prizes for design; architects still wisecrack that Tishman's aluminum-skinned skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue in mid-Manhattan is "the tin can that the Seagram Building came in." The company has $857 million...
...Chocolate Factory. No city has put more new life in the old waterfront than San Francisco. The move started in 1958, when a little-known import store called Cost Plus rented 4,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space next to Fisherman's Wharf to sell off its large inventory of rattan furniture. Shoppers were so charmed that the "sale" is still going on. Today, Cost Plus stocks 12,500 items (from Portuguese glass to South Pacific whale meat) from 47 countries, draws 25,000 customers weekly-and has spread out into six remodeled buildings, including a former glue factory...
...disease to one area. But the malady, which spreads with the silence and virulence of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, marched inexorably across the English countryside. Last week, despite frantic efforts to halt it, the worst animal epidemic in British history raged through a 17,640-sq.-mi. area from the county of Gloucester in the south to Westmorland in the north...
...Working from a sheaf of check lists and a mammoth plastic-covered map of the White House on which the nuptial traffic flow is charted with a grease pencil, Bess Abell has organized the operation down to the last hairdresser's appointment and millimeter of guest space (2 sq. ft. per person). The last White House wedding of a President's offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary William McAdoo in a simple ceremony. Mrs. Abell's nuptial production will more closely resemble the 1906 spectacular in which "Princess Alice...