Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lamented Little Mo in great pontifical style: "[On] the American sport scene today . . . we're reducing sports to a cluster of numbers on a board . . . We . . . are expecting our champions to be stadium automatons, the human equivalent of the balls in a super pinball machine . . . We're watching for the numbers to light up and forgetting the play...
...museum's walls were covered with moody, swirling blobs of color, as otherworldly as their titles (Strata No. 1, Tones of Silence, Pad '55). Only here and there does an oldtimer hold out. Ben Shahn in Second Super Market makes a tasteful composition out of wire grocery carts; the '303 echo in Philip Evergood's Quick Lunch, a ham-handed working man swigging a soft drink; Morris Graves's Bird is deftly caught on thin rice paper with a Chinese economy of line. But they are small islands of representation in a swirl of abstraction...
FLORIDA TURNPIKE stretching almost the full length of the state, from Miami 390 miles north to a point near Jacksonville, has been authorized by the state legislature. To be financed by revenue bonds paid off by tolls, the new super-road will cost $281 million. Work on the first 103-mile section north from Miami is scheduled to get under way this year. Completion date for the entire road...
...bleak gridiron of East Side slums"? What, I would like to know, will break up the bleak gridiron of these developments? Lewis Mumford was certainly right when he said that if we go on rebuilding New York on such obsolete patterns, we should merely be exchanging slums for future super-slums...
...years, has just opened an eight-mile rapid-transit rail line from the Union Terminal to East Cleveland, expects to bring in passengers by cutting 16 minutes off an old 34-minute bus ride. After Cleveland replaced streetcars on one route with a premium-fare (25? ). guaranteed-seat, super-express bus service, riders tripled. Cleveland Transit System General Manager Donald Hyde, who is also president of the American Transit Association, believes speed is transit's answer not only to the decline in passenger traffic but to rising costs. Says he: "If we can increase average speed one m.p.h...