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Some U.S. builders are beginning to take advantage of this remarkable seller's market. The most famous U.S. builder, William Levitt, has won preliminary approval from the French government to construct a Levittown of 500 houses near Versailles. For a three-bedroom house, he will charge $20,000 to $25,000-which is 25% to 50% more than the price of the same Levitt house...
Warren's opinion required only that both branches of state legislatures be represented by members from districts "substantially" equal in population. He added: "The equal-protection clause requires that a state make an honest and good-faith effort to construct districts, in both houses of its legislature, as nearly of equal population as is practicable. Mathematical exactness or precision is hardly a workable constitutional requirement...
...properties. But he admits that "results fell substantially short of expectations." Among other things, he has sold off a valuable block-square plot in New York's financial district, part of his Southwest Washington redevelopment project, and a San Francisco site where Webb & Knapp intended to construct apartments. Last week he dealt off his right to buy Manhattan's Drake Hotel, and a British buyer was reportedly dickering for Zeckendorfs Chatham. Considering that his revenues from the Astor, Manhattan and Taft are being passed out to creditors, the only New York hotel that Zeckendorf appears to have free...
...measure would direct the Metropolitan District Commission to acquire and operate a liberty ship from the federal government's "mothball fleet" and construct an incinerator aboard it. The ship would be loaded with garbage during the day and, at night, would move out to sea to burn and dispose...
...Humanities, Problems of the same dimension do not exist in the proposed new Humanities area since there already are appropriate courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences sections of the existing General Education Program. There is, however, a special challenge facing those who would construct courses at the center of the spectrum in this area, where literature and art, ideas and beliefs, may be seen in conjunction with social and political phenomena...