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...Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, the Perpetual Savings Bank has perpetuated itself in a delicate honeycomb by Edward D. Stone. Tier upon tier of arches suggests a squared-off Tower of Pisa; behind the concrete colonnades is an all-glass building. At each floor level, a continuous flower bed with piped-in water provides hanging gardens to heighten the parallel between Beverly Hills and Babylon...
...northern tier of Alabama, once pathetically barren, now flourishes under the spur of the Tennessee Valley Authority's cheap public power and of the mushrooming U.S.-financed space-age industries. The missile city of Huntsville, with its glistening new office buildings is the jewel of the valley area. During the decade of the '50s, it almost quintupled in population, now approaches 100,000. West of Huntsville, the tri-cities complex of Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia is bursting with new heavy industry, while southeast is Guntersville, a thriving resort area that features fine fishing, sailing and impressive scenery. There...
Without Bicker or Bother. Below the northern tier is the Black Belt, cutting a 100-mile-deep, 14-county swath across the state. The Black Belt got its name not so much for its concentration of Negroes as for its fertile dark brown soil. Once the heart of Alabama's cotton kingdom, the rolling, sparsely populated belt has changed radically in recent years: the houses where cotton sharecroppers once lived are now stuffed with hay to feed cattle, for livestock raising has become Alabama's No. 1 agricultural business...
...central tier, some 20,000 acres of pasture land and citrus groves, will preserve Irvine's agricultural tradition ?partly because of its soil and climate, partly because Pereira feels that agriculture is essential to the economic health of the area. The top tier, 30,000 acres of rugged peaks and ragged canyons?a mountain wilderness of deer, coyote and quail, pungent with sage and stippled with cactus?will be reserved for recreation, and it will take considerable population pressure before any residential development will be permitted...
Over the Memorial Day weekend, for instance, there were no fewer than four fly-ins. Near Elmira, N.Y., the second annual Southern Tier Air Fair drew 172 private planes and some 2,500 visitors to the Chemung County Airport, despite a bad weather forecast. The atmosphere at Elmira was a pure American blend of up-to-the-minute technology and old-fashioned county fair. Outside were refreshment stands, a chicken barbecue, cotton candy and a sound-truckload of continuous music; inside a large hangar were displays of the latest aeronautical equipment. The door prizes were free glider rides, and there...