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...Danforth Compton and Walter Pierce and built by Edward Green and Harmon White in Lexington, Mass., nine miles northwest of downtown Boston. The exterior is finished in cedar to match the rustic surroundings. The interior is separated into functional areas on a triple-level scheme: three bedrooms and bath on the top level; living room, dining room, kitchen and main entrance on the middle level; playroom, utility room and garage (convertible into two more bedrooms) on the lower level...
...bachelor pavilion in Lake Wales, Fla. designed by Architect Mark Hampton for an atmosphere of elegant privacy and relaxation. The house, which cost an estimated $40,000 to build, is in effect a single room composed of "freestanding circles in a rectangle," with the kitchen and bath the most prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled...
...eastern Costa Brava, hotel and cottage prices have zoomed 1,000% since 1950, but a fisherman's seaside cottage still rents for $70 a month. In Austria, pensions are charging as little as $3.30 a day with three meals. In Athens, an air-conditioned deluxe hotel room with bath and breakfast costs $7. For tourists who seek to savor the Continent's off-the-beaten-path charms, Greek villagers rent out clean rooms, are reluctant to take payment from foreigners. No nation will outshine Greece in tourist-luring music, dance, drama...
...just warned one NATO partner after another that they would make cemeteries of their countries in case of war. Their propaganda around the world was just as relentlessly condemnatory of the U.S. as ever, just as persistent in talking large and loosely about abolishing nuclear weapons. Only inside the Bath stone solemnity of London's Lancaster House were they talking with some precision on the subject. One possibility, though not probability, is that the Russians mean business. But there are other possibilities. They may be interested simply in testing out the subject, to see whether it has more advantages...
...echoes of Kafka. The manuscript, which Piatigorsky used to carry about with him in his cello case wherever he went, concerns one Dr. Blok, a painter who represents the eternal outcast and misfit. Blok's misadventures begin with his falling into a ditch, lead on to a Turkish bath frequented by a couple that have leprosy, and continue with a sort of Freudian secret society that tries to honor Dr. Blok by returning him to the womb (whether literally or symbolically, Author Piatigorsky does not say). But something goes wrong, and Dr. Blok winds up not in the planned...