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...census figures, Houston claims to be the fastest-growing major city in the nation. Last year Houston issued $338 million worth of building permits, trailing only New York and Los Angeles. Over the past decade, office space in the city has almost doubled, to more than 12 million sq. ft. Nine new skyscrapers costing a total of $90 million are currently being added to the Houston skyline, which already includes the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, the new 44-story downtown headquarters of Humble Oil & Refining Co. Under construction 22 miles southeast of the city is the National...
...shaped like a cow. Though the new material is thus much cheaper to produce than leather, Du Pont has no intention of damaging its discovery's reputation by putting it into cheap shoes, will sell the material for a considerably higher price than the 40? to 80? per sq. ft. for leather. Though Arnav could profitably sell its children's shoes for $3, it will charge...
...Middle East for TIME must be a correspondent with his suitcase always packed, habituated to many small cups of sweet, strong coffee, tolerant of camels and Jeeps, and ready to entrust himself constantly to planes that have varying degrees of reliability. His area covers more than 5,000,000 sq. mi., or almost half as much again as the U.S. Middle East Bureau Chief George de Carvalho has seen a great deal of it in recent weeks, and though this adds up to a lot of sand in his eye. he has had the spur of a news story that...
Designed by Architect Welton Becket (who has worked on the new airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will...
...Kentucky in 1933 with $600 in his poke and a yen to buy some brood mares. His mercurial colt Swaps outran Nashua in the 1955 Derby, and his horses won $1,154,454 last year. Now Ellsworth owns a 440-acre ranch in Chino, Calif., 1,000 sq. mi. of range land in Arizona and New Mexico, and about 500 head of high-priced thoroughbred horseflesh. At 55 he still insists, "I am not an ex-cowboy, I am a cowboy." He scoffs at the idea that horses can think, and trains his racers in ways (cuffing their ears...