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What has enabled Price to transform the prefab is intensive automation of his factories. IBM machines control quality and monitor shipments. Nailing machines pound nails into interior and exterior sections with a single bang, and machines automatically cut, sand and paint every section. Overhead cranes move parts down a long assembly line, hoist them onto one of Price's fleet of 476 trucks which take on a house every seven minutes...
Last week the ties that for seven years have bound the Alliance-Malays, the self-sufficient and aloof Chinese, and the Indians-began to fray. The ties held only when the Tengku proved that under his bland exterior he can be a hard man indeed. Trouble began over how the Alliance would distribute its candidates for the 104 parliamentary seats in next month's federal elections. Word got out that the Tengku would give the Indian minority half a dozen seats, the Chinese (who represent 40% of the population) would get 28 seats, and the rest would...
...years' tax revenue from Egypt to realize his dream. In 1099, crusaders mounted a gold cross on the dome and turned it into a church. Later, Saladin Avon it back for Islam, lovingly coated the interior arches with mosaic, the walls with marble. Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the exterior walls covered with splendid blue tiles...
...architecture department, got an A.I.A. merit award with his home for F. A. Deering (opposite). In a sharp break with the low, rambling Florida beach house. Architect Rudolph erected a building of surprising elegance and solidity on Casey Key, a sand strip near Sarasota, Fla. A shoebox on the exterior, the house is full of surprises inside. Ten rooms are ranged over five different levels like so many stage elevations. Ceilings vary from 16 ft. 6 in. (for the broad beach porch) to 8 ft. 4 in. (for the bedrooms) in an attempt "to introduce a certain amount of adventure...
...Chrysler last week asked the Dodge-Plymouth dealers to give up their Plymouth franchises, concentrate on selling Dodges, Simcas, and the new car, the Dart. Chrysler will introduce the Dart this fall, with the same chassis and engine as the Plymouth but with a different exterior. It will be priced to compete with Plymouth, Ford and Chevy...