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...western sides of the Yard. The planners claim that extreme care has been taken in planning the new complex to match the scale of buildings and court with those of the existing freshman housing system. The problem here was to build a compatible building in a contemporary way. The brick will match exactly that of other Yard buildings; each of the three sections of the complex maintains the volumetric scale of the old dorms and has an eave line matched to that of its nearest neighbor; the roofscape vocabulary of skylights and mechanical exhausts is a modern interpretation...
...ambiguous. To "solve" the problem, the designers have chosen to pave most of the court. The only such precedent within the Yard is the area in front of Lehman Hall. Lehman's public and prominent position at the most urban point in the Yard justifies the use of a brick and macadam ground surface. Introducing a paved court to a freshman dorm complex could provide it with a distinctly urban quality which would sharply and disturbingly contrast with the pastoral, town square (as opposed to city center) nature of the rest of the Yard...
...battle in the Nottingham coal fields was being waged over miners for whom the strike will be a huge financial loss-"those who live from Friday to Friday, up to their bloody eyeballs in debt," as Joe Whelan puts it. Even the oldest red brick row house in Nottingham has a television antenna on its roof, wall-to-wall carpeting, and an automobile parked out front, all bought on "hire purchase," as the British call the installment plan. "With mortgages, with hire purchase, we can't afford a strike," says Marge Reid, whose husband has been a miner...
...Crimson sports a two-game winning streak and stands 5-10 overall and 3-2 in the Ivy League. The Lions have stumbled on the Yellow Brick road to success 15 times and can show only 2 wins. Jack Rohan's sophomore-dominated squad is 1-5 in the Ivy League...
...brick and mortar alone turned out to be insufficient. The housing program got off to such a fast start that it caught the Nixon Administration unprepared. Taking advantage of the administrative chaos, unscrupulous speculators put up ramshackle homes and bilked thousands of poor buyers. Much of the housing, moreover, was overconcentrated on the edge of the metropolitan areas. Upwardly mobile blacks and whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage...