Word: bungalowed
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...Klerk ordered the release of Sisulu and seven others, including all the remaining Rivonia prisoners except Mandela, as soon as "the necessary formalities" could be arranged. There was a mixture of joy and sadness when Mrs. Sisulu later visited the 71-year-old Mandela in his stucco bungalow at the Victor Verster prison farm. As the 8 p.m. television news announced De Klerk's decision, Mandela embraced Mrs. Sisulu. "We want to take you with us right now," she told him. "Yes," Mandela replied. "I want to go home...
...jobs are not hard to come by in the Federal Republic, where skilled labor is in short supply, good housing is another matter. Unlike many of their fellow refugees, the Breites again got lucky. Through a Catholic social-welfare organization, they were able to rent a five-room furnished bungalow on a tree-lined street. "We expected a small apartment, not this," says a delighted Marlies...
...years ago, research librarian Edwina Barron, 46, rented a condo in Euclid, a mostly white Cleveland suburb. Just a month later, she fled to a bungalow in a quiet, racially mixed neighborhood in Cleveland. Here she describes an encounter with a white neighbor who had been drinking that occurred just one night after she moved into the Euclid condo. The incident persuaded...
...Holmby Hills mansion, television producer Aaron Spelling paid $10.25 million in cash. The bowling- alley-equipped, stadium-size French manor Spelling is building in its place will cost him about $30 million more. Just to the east, in Beverly Hills, a Japanese surgeon has dismantled Ronald Reagan's former bungalow, donated the pieces to charity and erected a Moroccan palace with five domes, an art gallery, ten baths and two reflecting pools. "We would have liked larger reflecting pools, like the Taj Mahal," explains general contractor David Conrad, whose desk is a marble slab that was once Reagan's shower...
...palpable. Gerald Robinson, with 22 years of seniority, feels secure in his GM production job and agrees with Bush about capital punishment. But he will vote Democratic this time because he fears that Reaganomics is ruining American industry. James and Martha Hurry are doing all right today; their snug bungalow was paid off many years ago, and they receive $20,000 a year in pension payments. But Hurry, 72, worries about being wiped out financially if he has to enter a nursing home. He repents his vote for Reagan because "ten years ago, I thought I was pretty well...