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Ferré's opposition is durable Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 62, architect of Puerto Rico's commonwealth status and the Popular Democratic Party's unannounced candidate for a fourth term. Trying to counter the presidential boost for Ferré, Muñoz declared that Eisenhower on his visit had "recognized the great value of commonwealth and the great economic and social progress registered under the present government of Puerto Rico." Some Muñoz followers, taking a different tack, grumped that Ike's friendliness toward Ferré amounted to interference in Puerto...
...complex framework made more difficult by his own presidential ambitions and by his desire to help his Southern friends retire gracefully from their lost cause. Most of Johnson's colleagues agreed, though, that when the U.S. Senate finally turns out its civil rights bill this year, the chief architect of victory will have been Lyndon Baines Johnson. But Johnson had yet to pull the blueprints...
...tallest apartment houses ever built will start rising this summer in the heart of Chicago's downtown area, north of the Loop. Architect Bertrand Goldberg, 46, a onetime student of Mies van der Rohe. devotes the first 18 floors of his pair of circular towers to a spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space...
...Architect Goldberg's most daring stroke was to raise all the 896 projected apartments well above city noise and dust, while providing garage space underneath for each family. His next best stroke: balconies for every apartment, overlooking the daytime and nighttime splendors of Chicago as if from a magic carpet. Rents, surprisingly enough, will start at a modest $115 a month...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A young architect attempts to replace his dead father as a circus magician in Turn the Key Deftly, an original mystery by Alfred Bester, with Julie Harris, Francis Lederer and Maximilian Schell. Color...