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...that locates low-interest loans and inexpensive materials for people willing to contribute labor to the construction of their houses. The Quiros family will put in 16 hours a week: he doing carpentry and general cleanup, she as a volunteer worker in the Homes for People office. The Owner-Builder Center in Berkeley, which has trained 8,000 people as builders and contractors, claims that a do-it-yourselfer can save up to 60% of construction costs...
Monaghan intends to rebuild the house as part of a Frank Lloyd Wright museum at Domino's Pizza new world headquarters on 300 semirural acres near Ann Arbor, Mich. He will be assisted by Architect-Builder David Henken, 68, a former Wright student who was in charge of putting up the house originally. Henken saved the fragments when earlier efforts to sell the house failed. He estimates that the reconstruction will cost...
DIED. Enrico Berlinguer, 62, secretary-general since 1972 of Italy's Communist Party (P.C.I.), the largest and most influential in the Western world, and builder of "Eurocommunism," a Western democratic Marxism; of a stroke; in Padua, Italy...
Leahey's just glad his squads have the chance to partcipate. "It's a morale builder for the team to partcipate in an event like this," he says, adding, "It's a change of pace and a lot of real fun. We'll be working hard and having a good time...
...median cost of a new home now $79,500, up 7.7% from a year ago, an affordable starter house may turn out to be little larger than a roomy cabin. In Hudson, N.H., eager buyers have been plunking down $60,000 for two-bedroom town-house units that Builder John Stabile has packed into 1,050 sq. ft., or about half the size of a singles tennis court. On the outskirts of Southern California's San Fernando Valley, $90,000 can buy a Kaufman & Broad two-bedroom, 1,000-sq.-ft. single-family home. For the Los Angeles area...