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Except for small and poor schools, or for stock parts in big schools, prefabrication is no final answer. For each school is a unique problem in tailoring costly space on differing sites and to different needs. ("Frfls" are often the cheapest item.) Today, the key word is "flexibility."' To keep pace with fast, shifts in population, schools must expand or contract. Portable classrooms (3,300 in Los Angeles) are one answer; wings that can later be dismantled or sold to business are another. But most important, tne flexible school is a hedge against educational oosolescence. Even the fancy...
...Wink is a recent widower and an inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some...
...first item on our agenda was a bus tour of the Stockton farms and farm laborers' housing. Here we were able to see the miserable conditions under which human beings are forced to live in a nation that likes to boast of its wealth. We walked through a labor camp, and although we had been "warned" what to expect, we were shocked to find how horribly our agricultural workers have been neglected...
With Jack Kennedy thoroughly trounced-by Dick Nixon in the Senate and by Howard Smith in the House-all that remained of the original Kennedy-Johnson list of short-session "must" measures was the only genuine, non-politicking item in the lot: foreign-aid appropriations. At week's end, despite a stern warning from Ike that "a cut of this size will jeopardize the security of the country," both houses voted $3.7 billion for foreign aid-$560 million less than the President had asked for. (Afterward, the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended an additional appropriation to restore $190 million...
...such a tradition and its emotions, transferred to the Lolita generation, it was also predictable that 1960-5 Tell Laura I Love Her, a collector's item among bad records, would bring a response from Laura. It has come-with the just-released Tell Tommy I Miss Him, whose sales are already climbing toward 50,000 records. Laura lugubriously moans...