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Halfhearted Efforts. A recent Common Market survey shows that the monthly rent for a three-room apartment in a lower-middle-class district averages $65 in Diisseldorf, $70 in Brussels and a skyscraping $180 in Paris, Europe's toughest town for housing. In Italy's cities, unskilled workers...
He mentioned with folksy pride his determination to save Government money: "We have tried to eliminate waste at every corner. I don't believe that we are going to make the Treasury over by cutting out a few automobiles or turning out a few lights. But I do think...
Author Taylor is not for every taste. Some of his stories fail to get off dead center. He does not point; he does not posture; he does not underscore. But as he pokes through the dusty closets of memory, Taylor conjures up ghosts that will continue to walk abroad in...
Died. Sir Albert Edward Richardson, 83, British architect, onetime (1955-57) president of the Royal Academy of Arts, an 18th century addict who considered modern buildings "cellular facades cloaked with vitreous indifference," believed that "nothing should be streamlined except water closets," himself eschewed electricity and telephones, entertained in wig and...
At a congressional ceremony on March 29, 1949, James Forrestal, retiring as the first Secretary of Defense, received a silver bowl and many plaudits: "A long and brilliant career . . . outstanding talents . . . one of the best analytical minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found...