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...Wally Hollyday, 48, who designed the Sayreville park, helped conceive his first one in 1977, when he was an 18-year-old disillusioned by what he found when he moved to California from New Jersey. "For me, it's about getting really interesting, organic shapes that flow," he says. "Skating came out of surfing. Waves are curved and moving, and they change shape at all times. When you put up concrete, you need to put those curves and moves into...
...coast along the walls and climb the rim. All bowls--round, oval and peanut-shaped--are descended from the ur-bowl of skateboarding, an empty swimming pool. But park design has moved far from the basic pool formations. "Now it's about taking those and intersecting them," says Hollyday. "I have to keep thinking of the next shape...
Among these budding stars are trumpeters Terence Blanchard, 28, Roy Hargrove, 21, Philip Harper, 24, and Marlon Jordan, 20; pianists Marcus Roberts, 26, Geoff Keezer, 19, and Benny Green, 27; saxophonists Branford Marsalis, 30, Christopher Hollyday, 20, and Vincent Herring, 25; guitarists Mark Whitfield, 24, and Howard Alden, 31; drummer Winard Harper, 28; and organist Joey De Francesco, 19. At the superstar end of the scale, of course, sits young Harry Connick Jr., 23, the slicked-back New Orleans-born entertainer who started out as a jazz-piano player but has crossed over into show business as a Sinatra-style...
...harked back to the Democratic Administration, since they were made possible by the National Housing Act's Section 608, repealed four years ago. When Democratic Senator Harry Byrd began investigating the deals, the Republicans brought them out in the open by firing Federal Housing Commissioner Guy T. O. Hollyday (TIME, April 26). Section 608 provided that the Government would insure mortgages up to 90% of the building cost, and many a builder was able to "mortgage out" by putting up a building for less than the amount of the mortgage, then pocket the difference as his windfall. Examples...
...first week, Senator Caprhart seemed to have gained a decided advantage. He had succeeded in grabbing off the stars of the scandal--Hollyday, Powell, Greene and Cole--as witnesses. Top billing went to Powell who raised Capital Hill eyebrows by invoking the Fifth Amendment. Capehart was optimistic about the proceedings. He announced that he was going to ask for $250,000 to carry on the work and predicted that a thorough investigation might take as long as a year...