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...earthly comforts, the industry is concentrating on centrally located, massproduced air conditioning: last month the Hartford Gas Co. inaugurated the U.S.'s first utility-operated air-condition ing plant, which will offer metered air conditioning to any building in the entire downtown area. In Washington a builder has installed a central system for 134 new town houses, piping chilled and hot water into each and dispensing with the need for furnaces, hot-water heaters and chimneys...
...David Francis Powers, the boy from Charlestown, is officially listed as a White House staff assistant-but that is only half the story. In the informal, easygoing atmosphere of the Kennedy Administration, the elfish, ebullient Powers, 49, plays a unique role as John Kennedy's constant companion, morale builder, tension lifter and joke teller. One reason for his value is that even amid the glitter of the nation's capital, he still remains a son of Charlestown. Says Dave casually: "It's the best White House I've ever worked...
...fastest 102-ft. yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked for a buyer...
...below the 1962 high of 42⅜ that the stock hit during Gilbert's maneuvers last February. Last week cool, lanky James Willis Walter, 39, founder of Tampa, Fla.'s Jim Walter Corp.-which he has parlayed from a $400 loan into the nation's biggest builder of shell houses-announced that he too had designs on Celotex. In a secrecy-shrouded maneuver that took barely ten days, Walter bought up more than 40% of Celotex's 1,028,000 shares at "about $30 a share...
...Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer's. Faulkner began to survey his birthright in 1929, with his third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather, Colonel William Falkner (as the name was spelled then). The old colonel, a Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent knife-and gunfighter in the manner of Wild Bill Hickok, was more than a ready-made fictional hero: he was an embodiment of aristocratic tradition. As it happened, successive Falkners had successively less gumption. Novelist William, fourth in line...