Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Real estate is costly in the mountain valley that houses Caracas, but the hill called La Roca Tarpeya, considered too steep for building sites, long stood barren right in the middle of town. Now an ambitious young builder is covering the rock with a cap of concrete and glass to form a spiraling, 25-acre commercial area worth $30 million. Architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, 36, calls his project "the helicoid," or spiral. In the two years that construction has been under way, Romero has spent $16.5 million, and last week the helicoid was 60% finished...
...Vending, which began selling popcorn and candy in Manhattan movie houses, now has concessions in more than 2,750 theaters and 420 drive-in movies. It has taken advantage of the leisure-time boom, moved vending machines into sports arenas, bowling alleys and stock-car racetracks. At Squaw Valley's Olympic Games last winter ABC did $280,000 worth of business in ten days, decided to keep its snack bars in the area permanently...
...Both Davis and Long enthusiastically share Nieder's feeling toward O'Brien. Says Davis, a physical education major (among his courses: Methods of Baseball, Square Dancing, Driver Education) at San Fernando Valley State College: "O'Brien psyches me out. He pretends you're not there. When you put, he turns his back on you just like you're some invisible man. Maybe just as you're putting, he drops his shot on the ground. It's not so bad losing to Nieder or Long. But to O'Brien, that's horrible...
...study American regional history is to listen to the music of Ferde Grofé. Among his nine schmalzy suites are musical chronicles of the Hudson River, the Mississippi, Death Valley and, most famed of all, the Grand Canyon. Last fortnight Memorialist Grofé. a vigorous 68, got around to San Francisco. Before an audience of proud local citizens, he conducted the première of his golden-gaited San Francisco Suite, tracing the fortunes of the city from gold-rush days to the present...
Married. Carol Heiss, 20, women's figure-skating champion in the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif.; and Hayes Alan Jenkins, 27, an Akron lawyer, and men's figure-skating champion in the 1956 Olympics at Cortina, Italy; in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Manhattan...