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...town into a showcase for imaginative corporate architecture. General Telephone & Electronics occupies a striking tower, shaped like an inverted pyramid, that has helped to transform a once decaying downtown section. Champion International's offices in the 21-story Landmark Tower overlook buildings forming a complex that includes a sunken plaza used for tennis in the summer, skating in the winter. Continental Oil, Xerox, Texasgulf and General Signal are in High Ridge Park, which, with six modern buildings set on 40 acres of lawns and woodlands, is an archetypal corporate "campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bedroom to Board Room | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Residents at the meeting said one abuse is non-profit organizations that falsely claim to be schools, such as one group that is building a structure with an underground pool, squash court and a sunken Japanese garden...

Author: By Georgia A. Hill, | Title: Local Residents Oppose Schools Buying Property | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

...conversation. America's last known billionaire, the reclusive Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, who scraped together $25 at the age of nine to buy a sunken boat and now operates one of the world's largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...daring freshmen jumped into Pusey Library's sunken courtyard, one of them seriously injuring his leg, Lieut. Francis P. Shannon of the University Police, said last night...

Author: By Raymond Bertolino and Joshua I. Goldhaber jr., S | Title: Students Celebrate College Shut-down | 2/8/1978 | See Source »

...Wicked Witch of the West runs a sweatshop. The Cowardly Lion is one of the two statues that guard the front of the New York Public Library. The Emerald City is the World Trade Center, and Director Sidney Lumet has staged extravagant dances at the towers' base. The sunken plaza was covered over with Plexiglas, and 300 dancers, lit by spotlights from below, pound away on top. Lumet wanted to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into the Yellow Brick Road by putting down 25 miles of yellow vinyl. The New York police gave him a firm no, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Yellow Brick Road to Profit | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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