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...rural parts of the U.S., where building codes, union labor and obstructive bureaucrats are scarce, imaginative architects and builders have lately achieved some triumphs. To replace the reeking hovels inhabited by California migrant farm workers, Berkeley Architects Sanford Hirshen and Sim Van der Ryn designed $1,200 shelters of paper and plastic foam that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab...
...fellowships, financed by matching grants from the participating colleges and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, went to: Elisabeth Adlum, now at Mount Holyoke College, who will prepare to teach English literature; William K. Kilpatrick, Holy Cross, Social Sciences; Susan J. Ellovich, Brandeis, social sciences; Roberts M. Hirshen, Radcliffe, mathematics; and Edward M. Warren, Williams, social sciences...
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