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Nowadays, Graves lives in Ireland, a bearded recluse who insists on privacy. There he has added to his list of subjects the hedgerow ferret, and the fox balled up within itself against winter. But living abroad does not mean he has turned his back on the Northwest. Says Graves: "I have memorized the Northwest so I can use it. It does not crowd me like a new environment. I have it in memory...
With a state official as both prosecutor and judge, one of the bills, H. 2120, would provide a hearing to ferret out subversives on an institution's faculty. Defining subversives as members of all organizations on Attorney General's list, the bill gives institutions the option of losing their subversives or their charters. In the case of Harvard's non-revokable charter, tax-exempt status would be withdrawn...
...tallest skyscraper in France today is in the cathedral town of Amiens, a 25-story tower made of reinforced concrete, named for Architect Auguste Ferret. Far from pointing to the building with pride, the people of Amiens have scornfully dubbed it La Chandelle (The Candle). To the French government, which owns it, the Perret Tower has become a national scandal. Abuilding since 1949, it is still unfinished inside, already 30 months behind schedule and 132 million francs over its original 93-million-franc estimate. Last week the French government offered the tower to private investors. Price: one-fifth its cost...
...universities, but so far, U.S. influence shows up chiefly in technical details like plumbing and elevators, in living-space layouts and the general addiction to the skyscraper principle. Main inspiration for Latin America's new architectural forms is the international style pioneered by such men as France's Ferret and Le Corbusier. A prime example: Brazil's beehive-fronted Ministry of Education and Public Health in Rio de Janeiro, the work of a team of architects including Le Corbusier and his brilliant Brazilian disciple, Oscar Niemeyer. Historian Hitchcock calls it "still perhaps the finest single modern structure in Latin America...
Coming out of his reveries at the café, Gaston ponders his experiences aboard La Douce, sips a little hot wine, and wonders if he can now get an extra disability allowance. Author Ferret has turned his escapist tale with wit and grace. No dish for the literal-minded, it is, in the words of one enthusiastic English reviewer, "a soufflé with sail...