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...affordable" houses, as a Texas land developer calls them, are cheaper to maintain and run than standard-size homes. They are particularly suited to young couples, who can later add a floor to most models or convert a carport if they need more space for growing children. Smaller homes also make sense for older couples. Dr. Joseph Murphy, a retired physician, and his wife, whose three daughters are grown, recently sold their $62,500 house in a Dallas suburb to move into a $23,500, three-bedroom compact outside the city. Says Dr. Murphy: "I've always wanted...
...domestic life of her own, Mrs. Pat Nugent, 19, set up housekeeping with her new husband in a cozy little duplex house in Austin, complete with automatic dishwasher, air conditioning, three closed-circuit television cameras to scan the yard outside, and a charming little cubicle in the carport for the Secret Service. As soon as Luci and Pat had stowed their luggage at home, they set off for the supermarket to load up on frozen pizzas, dill pickles, potato chips and other staples for the pantry. Pat whistled in disbelief when the checker rang up the inflationary...
Tooling along the freeway at rush hour, with cars whooshing around him like jet-propelled lemmings, the home-bound commuter is 20.34 minutes from the carport when glunk!-his engine expires. Or else sudden snow turns a mountain road to meringue, or the fuel gauge comes up E in the midst of the desert, 25 miles after that road sign...
...Rockland County, N.Y. Architect Murray Blatt is designing and building contemporary treatments, such as a split-level with a difference, featuring especially wide eaves, a wrap-around deck, and a carport tucked under the living space...
...Mississippi, he was a constant target for threats, but he pursued his course nevertheless. He directed a big civil rights rally in Jackson recently that brought in such big-name Negroes as Lena Horne. Only a few weeks before his death, somebody tossed a gasoline-filled bottle into his carport (it did not explode). "If I die," he said the next day, "it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Viet...