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...girl returning from a cast party at 3 or 4 a.m. may very well not be in a condition to check books," claimed one skeptic. However, a representative from one of the co-op dorms said that a similar system of checking was used in Jordan Hall and was found to work out all right...
...Today's rooms," says Mrs. H.J. Heinz II, wife of the 57-varieties man, "are either so slickly modern that one becomes Mrs. Plastic or so ornate that one is Madame Ormolulu. I prefer to have something that will last." To restyle part of their eleven-room triplex co-op on the East River at 5 2nd Street, the Heinzes brought in Jansen Inc., international decorators. Drue Heinz used mostly classic French furniture but aimed at a Venetian effect. The high ceiling had been strung with beams. They were ripped out. and the walls were "papered" in green velvet...
...members who refused to hold the line. One of the ousted is San Francisco's Nicholas Daphne, one of the city's most successful funeral directors. Daphne had discarded the association's "suggested" rock-bottom funeral price of $450, had agreed to handle a Berkeley co-op's business for $210 including embalming...
...stand between the moist green of mountains and banana trees and the dazzle of sparkling sea. Inside on the wall, along with stiffly formal photographs of parents and children, there usually hangs a portrait of Fidel Castro. Down the gullied road is a raw-concrete school or a new co-op store of fresh pine...
Shakedown. The Corktown Guild and the Co-op are not the only instances of Holy Trinity help and selfhelp. There is a "foot clinic" run by Chiropodist Earl G. Kaplan in his spare time, a dental clinic operated by volunteers from the Detroit Society of Dental Hygienists, a legal clinic manned by top lawyers. There is a Filipino Club, a Puerto Rican Club, a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous (membership: 1,000), a St. Vincent de Paul Society, a credit union that started with $80 in 1947, now has assets of $147,000; there is even a two-night-a-week...