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...last year's cover story on growing American inefficiency, Associate Editor George Church wrote: "An odd thing happened one year after construction started on Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Building: it began to sink into the ground. Air pockets had developed in the concrete caissons on which 'Big John' rested." The story, widely applauded at the time, subsequently won one of the more coveted prizes given for business journalism. Last week Church accepted none other than a John Hancock Award, worth $1,500 and a dais seat at a banquet. The dinner was given-where...
Everything is geared to the average size of people 50 years ago. Look at the height of the average kitchen or bathroom sink, doorknob, table and the like. It is even difficult to find enough room in the front seat of many cars...
...Trout Fishing but somehow got misplaced just before the book was published. The first is "Rembrandt Creek," which "looked like a painting hanging in the world's largest museum with a roof that went to the stars and galleries that knew the whisk of comets." The second, "Carthage Sink," is about "a Goddamn bombastic river" that suddenly dried up in mid-boast...
...also afforded a great opportunity for original programming in the unsponsored time zones--allowing the off-beat a coast-to-coast audience. It is then that the network news departments were established (curtailing previous agreements with press services), along with the "distinguished" tradition of radio poetry readings, kitchen sink dramas, vaudevillian "special events," and Meet-the-Press-type panel shows...
...some deservedly devastating comments. At Tuesday's preview, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey had declared: "It has class, dignity. I love it." But many disagreed with Humphrey. New York Times Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the building "a superbunker. One more like this and the city will sink. The corridors would be great for drag racing...