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MODERN LIVING links the old and new in its report on the atrium house, which comes from a blueprint as old as the hills of Rome but is fast becoming the newest thing in town housing. ART touches on old v. new as it studies the argument whether Paris should or should not have its face washed, whether old buildings (or people) should look young, whether decades of dirt add character or merely hide style. The issue of old and new comes out in a hopeful way in THE HEMISPHERE story about a sensible move toward land reform-at long...
...elephantine is the gestation period of Detroit's new models that, in Iacocca's three years as head of the Ford Division, the Mustang is the first car that he can call completely his own, from blueprint through mock-up to production line (see adjoining color pages...
Inflicted Slights. It is especially mystifying that the U.S.-and Britain as well-is so often taken by surprise by France's actions. There is a clear and explicit blueprint in De Gaulle's own writings. He warns that any decision concerning Europe reached without consulting France is a "grave error," and adds that "any large-scale human edifice will be arbitrary and ephemeral if the seal of France is not affixed...
...plus a highly ambitious investment of another $8 billion annually from Latin American business and government. As its goal, the Alianza aimed at increasing the per-capita growth rate of each country by a whopping 2.5% a year. To get the cash, each Latin American country would submit a blueprint for social reforms-from schools to housing to tax collection to cutting up the wealthy landowners' huge holdings for small farmers...
...place in the cynical power structure of the Soviet world. In the '30s, when he volunteered to go to Spain, the authorities regarded him as some kind of nut and sent him back to the university. He is troubled because the war is not following the victorious blueprint that Joseph Stalin always said it would. His only solace is reading Das Kapital. "The worse the news from the war became," writes Solzhenitsyn, "the more he buried himself in this thick blue book...