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...three more boys, ended when the family moved to Paris, where Ida died suddenly after the birth of a fifth. The next year John married again, and in time four more children were born. The family lived in France for a while, then Dorset, and finally in a white brick Georgian house in Hampshire, a charming bedlam of bright children and assorted animals that was John's headquarters until he died...
Another problem is the representation of off-campus houses, which will eventually be replaced by the fourth house center. Under the present system, each off-campus house, no matter how small, elects one representative to the SGA. The brick dorms elect only one representative for each 40 residents...
...last week in Katmandu, capital of the kingdom of Nepal, the goddess Kumari burst into tears. She begged her mother to take her home from the big white plastered brick house behind the old city palace-home from the priests and the prayers, the worshipers, handmaidens and other perquisites of divinity. For the life of a goddess is a strange and painful thing-especially when one is only four years...
...does Jaguar do it? The answer lies largely in Sir William's Spartan-like dedication to no frills and no featherbedding. Jaguar's ugly red-brick plant in Coventry is starkly functional: Sir William's own bare office is ornamented by a single ceramic jaguar. Working nine to twelve hours a day, he doubles unofficially as his own chief inspector, and expects each of his executives to fill at least two posts. The result: Jaguar has probably the lowest ratio of office to production workers of any major British automaker...
...large "contactring" is full of rabbits, ducks and chickens that the children can fondle and lug around to their hearts' content. The houses of the Three Little Pigs-one of straw, another of sticks, and a third of non-huffable brick-sure enough hold three pigs. In Old MacDonald's Farm roam a placid Jersey cow and her calf, a few llamas, a couple of goats and a black baby yak. Behind the barn is a run for sheep, roosters, hens and geese, and there is a pen for three raccoons that hide in a log. The children...