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...town house to a custom-built home on a large lot for $60,000 or more. To avoid a drab uniformity, Simon has assigned the designing responsibilities to five different architectural firms, and they have come through with flying colors. Instead of picture-window ranch houses or cramped Cape Cod saltboxes, Reston offers handsome modern architecture and quality construction found in few developments today...
ERNEST DUDLEY CHASE Cape Cod, Mass...
...suppose I sold more milk than anybody who ever lived." No, that's not Elsie the Borden cow speaking but Elmer Verner McCollum, who in 1918, as a University of Wisconsin researcher, first identified vitamin A in butterfat. He followed this in 1922 with the discovery (in cod-liver oil) of vitamin D, now irradiated in a goodly portion of the nation's milk. Though retired from his last post, as professor of biochemistry at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, he writes and conducts experiments there, at 85 a lively testimonial to the balanced diet...
Furious workers, feeling that they had been betrayed by the very men they had voted into power, raged against Air Ministry "cod heads," and Wilson at week's end invited top industry and labor leaders to Chequers in an effort to calm the situation...
...fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you will be brought this Monday in the city of cod a new Crime. Rejoice...