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...Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project is finished, more than 30 fully furnished houses, with from one to four bedrooms, are scheduled to go on display. The other 120-odd are already being rented at a fast pace as showrooms or living space by governments, corporations and individuals...
...Dunster House dining room is illuminated by two gargantuan chandeliers, each consisting of three concentric circles of lightbulbs. The bottom and outermost circle contains sixteen bulbs, the middle fourteen, and the top ten. Nothing spectacular, mind you, but a pleasant distraction from the business being presented at the far end of the room...
Tastes & Teflon. Today, when weight watching is a national pastime, the gargantuan fare of yesteryear is hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking...
...bullish 1965, the No. 1 glamour stock was Fairchild Camera and Instrument, which soared from a low of 27 ¼ to a high of 165 ¼, the biggest percentage gain of the year. The company owed its gargantuan gain to its pinpoint-tiny microcircuits-the new electronic marvels that bond and fuse complete, complex electrical circuits onto a sliver of silicon. In early 1966, Fairchild stock continued to rocket, finally hit 2161, a hefty 65 times earnings, before it began to recede. Last week it went into a big fall, and took other electronics stocks down with...
...Fall of '64, for the gargantuan sum of $8000, Mayer had mounted a dazzling production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited on the Loeb mainstage. He lost no time getting to the vital center of HDC politics...