In 1968  Edward Durrell Stone gave a reporter for Business Week this account
of a conversation he just  happened to overhear by two men gazing upon the
new General Motors Building, at 58th and Fifth:  '' 'It's  more beautiful
than the Taj Mahal,' '' one exclaimed. 'They ought to knight  the s.o.b. who
designed it,' said the other.' '' And in 1972 Stone told  Paul Goldberger,
for a profile in The Times on the architect:  ''There  isn't a taxi driver in
New York who won't say the General Motors Building  is the most beautiful
thing in the city.''

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