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CHARLES DE GAULLE lives in stone houses. In cosmopolitan Paris, home is the buff-colored Elysée Palace, an elaborate 18th century pleasure dome that belonged to Mme. de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV. In rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, home is a 14-room château of grey limestone surrounded by formal gardens and groves of elm and pine. In both, le grand Charles tries to keep life as simple and uncomplicated as possible...
...view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels from the Atlantic...
...million initial contract to build the lunar "bug" that, it is hoped, will land Apollo astronauts on the moon by 1970. The 12-ton bug, called LEM (for Lunar Excursion Module), will be like nothing ever seen before: 10 ft. wide and 15 ft. high, with a window-dome top and three strutlike "legs" for landing...
...drive there can see why critics call it "Sing Sing on the Brazos." Looming out of rlatland where the lowly "post oak" grows, the school is a cluster of penal-looking buildings flying the flag of Texas. Center of the campus is the Academic Building, with an odd dome topped by a bare electric light bulb that Aggies used to shoot out regularly...
...pleasure dome cost $200,000, including carpets and furnishings: Barcelona chairs, Eero Saarinen pedestal tables, sectional sofas on wall-to-wall carpeting. All of these fittings were made in India, but they are basically American in design: there, at least, Fatemeh got something that might grace a ranch house...