Word: skyscraperism
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With rural areas pretty well covered, CATV companies are now turning to the cities. To overcome skyscraper ghost effects and provide the strong reception that good color TV requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the...
Construction on Brattle Square's 23 story skyscraper motel will begin this spring and should be finished in about a year, a spokesman for the company that will build it said yesterday.
Nearly 10,000 buildings, ranging from four to seven stories in height, have mushroomed near the city's center. And many more have come down, for "transitory" is Tokyo's middle name. Even Frank Lloyd Wright's earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, built in 1922, is threatened with...
Down will come the 33-story hotel, and in its place will rise a 40-story office skyscraper that will house the New York and overseas headquarters of General Motors. G.M. is eager to trade up from its shabby, 37-year-old offices at Broadway and 57th Street. Rayne is...
In an opening sequence that roughly sets the tone, two hoods, contracted by Con Man Ronald Reagan, show a fine flair for menace as they trail Cassavetes to a school for the blind, where they pummel a winsome blind receptionist. In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating...