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...year, travelers reported that even in the best hotels meat and eggs were hard to come by, and that in other cities the ration of meat, sugar and fish had been cut. As for Red China's great "leap forward" in steel, to a large extent accomplished by backyard amateur furnaces for smelting pig iron, Peking's official People's Daily was now complaining that some provinces of the country were able to use only about half...
...both his own client and architect, set out to build a "carefree pavilion'' beside his house as "a retreat from the numerous activities connected with living in a house with a growing family." Davis ensured that he would be detached both physically and emotionally from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade...
...Magazine has added to its list of contributors many a starlit name from the ranks of space engineers, e.g., Hugh Dryden and Heinz Haber, remapped the firmament in its monumental Sky Atlas (price: about $1,200), even peddled (for $2) a Sputnik-tracing kit for the edification of backyard satellite hunters. But it remains solidly indentured to the principles laid down by Gilbert Grosvenor years ago, still segregates advertising and editorial copy, runs no liquor, tobacco or real-estate ads, hustles no lagging subscriber, still refuses to say anything controversial or unkind of any individual, race, country or hemisphere...
...Baltimore health-department inspector, from house to house on Baltimore's Reisterstown Road until he came to the home of one Aaron D. Frank. One quick look showed the Frank house to be in "an extreme state of decay," and disclosed-as health-department officialese put it-a backyard pile of "rodent feces mixed with straw and trash and debris to approximately half a ton." But Aaron Frank refused to let the inspector in the house without a warrant. After Inspector Gentry was kept out a second time, Householder Frank was fined $20, under a 158-year-old city...
...Limit. The packaged pool is the fastest-growing part of the market. Rudd's National Pool Equipment Co. of Florence, Ala. is specializing in precast, prestressed concrete-pool packages, complete with diving board and vacuum cleaner, delivered via truck to any backyard in the land for as little as $2,000. From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported...