Word: towerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sugar millionaire, the 31-year-old Jerusalem Y was designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon, architect of Manhattan's famed Empire State Building. One of Israel's tallest structures, the pink, ocher and brown marble building consists of two domed wings connected by cloisters to a Jesus Tower, symbolizing the Trinity and the Y's threefold function-developing man's body, mind and spirit. Twelve cypress trees in the eight acres of gardens represent the twelve Apostles, and on the tower are carved, in Aramaic, Jesus' words from John...
...Disneyland of a film studio. He is spending $50 million on tourist facilities alone, including a projected 1,800-room "hotel of the stars." Visitors ride around in a three-car surrey-topped tram, getting near views of miscellaneous Munsters and other TV personalities. Under glass in the office tower they can see the computer which Wasserman uses in order to complete cost control and time factor studies, and run his studio like a good machine tool factory...
...avoided headlines while putting his mark on more than 15 U.S. cities, Pei, 47, has won double awards for his dramatic, clean-cut towers and town houses in Philadelphia's Society Hill (TIME, Nov. 6). He is rejuvenating 160 acres of Cleveland, is master planner with vast authority of a $200 million reconstruction project in Boston, has a say-so in the downtown redevelopments in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Providence and Columbus. Winning a Federal Aviation Agency commission, Pei has designed a universal trim, pentagonal control tower now being installed in at least 25 U.S. airports. More than...
...President John Gordon raised earlier plans to spend $1 billion to $1.1 billion, 20% more than 1964; 75% will be spent in the U.S. Part of G.M.'s capital spending for the next few years will go into a new Eastern headquarters, a controversial 48-story Manhattan tower that will be completed by 1968 on the site of the tradition-encrusted Savoy Plaza Hotel; G.M. has bought half ownership of the new building from its British planners...
...Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Scranton (men like Senator Kuchel and Congressman Lindsay also belong in this group). Then there are the Congressional and legislative leaders like Everett Dirksen, Charlie Halleck, and Robert Taft Jr. and Sr. Finally there is the Goldwater group, including Barry himself, Senator Tower and a host of cold-eyed ideologues who do not hold public office...