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TOWN Gordes gordes-village.com has wonderful cafés, colorful houses???very scenic. That little town is the chicest area...
Mercifully, the emphasis has been on saving the good old buildings of the downtown's surrounding neighborhoods rather than destroying them. Baltimore's homesteading program, the nation's most ambitious, has preserved scores of blocks of dilapidated but essentially sound and potentially elegant 19th century red-brick row houses???something of a city trademark. For a $1 purchase price per house and the promise of "sweat equity," private citizens are restoring such historic neighborhoods as Ridgeley's Delight, Otterbein, Barre Circle, Stirling Street, Durham Street and Washington Hill. There is a similar program of "shopsteading," whereby businessmen are encouraged...
...petroleum increases alone have so far this year jacked up the inflation rate by 2.5% in the industrial countries. A further $5.45-a-bbl. boost is likely to siphon an additional $80 billion a year out of the major industrial nations, reducing their citizens' ability to buy food, clothes, houses???indeed, everything except oil. Result: further slowing of growth rates that have only recently begun to pick up (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and increasing unemployment...
...Comparative Zoology (plus a few more tennis lessons), and finally as a professor at Cornell from 1948 to 1958, Nabokov studied America, as a colleague at Cornell puts it, like someone "in Madagascar observing the natives." In 1945 he became an American citizen. They occupied a succession of rented houses???more or less bivouacked in the quarters of a different absentee professor each year ?partly for lack of cash, partly because Nabokov, having lost everything once, has absolutely no interest in acquiring physical possessions...
Whether or not Editrix Patterson takes to her job any great knowledge of daily publishing, she is well-posted on the social lore of the capital, which she has already exoloited in signed articles and a novel (Glass Houses???TIME, March 15, 1926"). For years she has been one of Washington's up-&-doing hostesses. She acquired the title of countess through her marriage with Count Joseph Gizycka, Austrian-Pole, whom she met in St. Petersburg and Vienna and married in 1904. After their divorce in 1908 she appealed to the Tsar, won custody of their daughter Felicia...