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...siesta time in Lar (pop. 15,000), a provincial capital in southern Iran, and most of the city was asleep. Down in the brick-domed bazaar, a few shopkeepers haggled with farmers over fruits and vegetables to be sold later to housewives. About the only other activity was a gathering of girl students at Soraya School to celebrate National Children's Day and render thanks to Allah and the Shah, in roughly equal measure, for the blessings of a secondary education...
...spends weekends during the summer in his white-brick mansion in a pine forest near Holland's Haarlem. Called Koekoeks Duin (Cuckoo's Dune) when Loudon bought it five years ago, it is hung with tapestries and paintings (among them a self-portrait of the young Rembrandt), stocked with old editions, and graced with an icebox liquor cabinet hidden behind a fake bookshelf (Loudon's drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred...
...Dowling is credited with popularizing the all-glass door in the 1930s, is now at work on a new kind of facing brick, a vibrationless pavement breaker, 16-power binoculars that telescope to transistor-radio size...
Detroit's oldest and richest suburban area is the five-community section east of the city collectively called Grosse Pointe (pop. 50,000). Set back from the winding, tree-shaded streets are fine, solid colonial or brick mansions, occupied by some of Detroit's oldest (pre-automobile age) upper class, and by others who made the grade in business and professional life. Grosse Pointe is representative of dozens of wealthy residential areas in the U.S. where privacy, unhurried tranquillity, and unsullied property values are respected. But last week, Grosse Pointe was in the throes of a rude, untranquil...
...setting up offices in New York City, as most other cigarette companies did, stayed on in provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories and its 22-story limestone office building, the tallest in North Carolina, the quick and pungent smell of tobacco drifts pleasantly over the city...