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...backyard for the sake of more spacious community facilities? Will enough companies move out of the big cities into the New Town's industrial parks? For indications of how the future will go, the New Town most closely watched by architects and developers alike is Reston, Va. It is probably the farthest along, and architects agree that it is superbly designed. Says Architect Philip Johnson: "Reston is the most advanced planning in housing today...
...President from every possible angle. "What is happening," complained the New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond, "is that Mr. Johnson is in the process of destroying the presidential press conference as Washington correspondents have known it for 32 years." Wrote New York Times Associate Editor James Reston: "He has not yet found time to clarify his foreign policies or the proper forum in which to articulate them, and this is hurting his Administration both at home and abroad." Lamented New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis: "The most marked difference between the Johnson Administration and others...
...memory of Kennedy's skill at projecting the image of a man on top of his job became sharpest after Johnson's latest press conference. Wrote Reston: "Nobody was satisfied-not the diplomats in Washington who wanted to know about Viet Nam and the Atlantic Alliance; not the President himself, who is still trying to get over his recent illness; and not the reporters, most of whom felt Mr. Johnson was imprecise and evasive." New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Douglas Kiker put it bluntly: "It is apparent that press conferences have become both a chore and a bore...
...colleges and of politics from firsthand. His Columbia courses were among the most popular in the college; he also has a reputation as an outgoing, friendly teacher who enjoys inviting undergraduates to his house for dinner and talk. His only book, Presidential Power, established his scholarly reputation firmly. James Reston called it "the nearest thing we have in contemporary America to Machiavelli's The Prince," and John Kennedy is supposed to have been influenced by it. In Washington he helped organize the White House staff for John Kennedy and served as a Presidential adviser...
...major sideline. In partnership with Contractor Del Webb, Houston's Humble Oil is erecting a satellite city next to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (for which Humble cannily donated the land). Gulf Oil guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...