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...Warmer & Grander. In Atlanta there has been an influx of young families out of the suburbs and into Ansley Park-a settlement of houses about half a century old in the center of the city. Nelson and Sara Frank and their four children have ten main rooms and four baths, plus four porches. "You have to be sort of handy with things like a plasterer's trowel," says Sara Frank. "But it's so centrally located that you can walk a block to the public library and get a book on plumbing...
...short, which is so far from wasted. Says a Boston realtor who lives in a 74-year-old 15-roomer himself: "Of course, the basic appeal is a lot more room for less money. But beyond that-they're nicer, they're warmer, they're grander. You have the feeling that you're living in a real house...
...Geneva's Palais des Nations, the site of many grand scenes and grander disappointments, the U.S., Britain and the Common Market Six have been bickering for nine months over an ambitious plan to lower world tariffs. Bogged down in technicalities, fragmented by chauvinism, they have made little progress. Last week the U.S. took a long step toward resolving the debate, hoping thereby to clear the way at last for the "Kennedy Round" of tariff talks that is scheduled to begin...
...Size of Monument: It would be unfitting to erect a monument to God that is smaller than monuments already existing in Washington in recognition of mortals. Those honoring Lincoln and Washington, to cite two widely known examples, are rather large. A memorial grander than these could run into money...
Concluded Dirksen: "This is a first, a single step. It is for destiny to write the answer. It is for history to render judgment. But with consummate faith and some determination, this may be the step that can spell a grander destiny for our country and for the world...