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...home is Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver's duplex in Chicago's Lincoln Park section. Much of the furniture was designed by Denmark's Finn Juhl and the U.S.'s Eero Saarinen; the living room is a jungle gym of iron chair frames and brass lamp poles, set off by modern paintings by Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because I think a library should have...
...party officials scuttled about, attempting to scare the East German public into docility, the sickness seemed to be getting worse. Rarely has criticism of the regime been more vocal. At an East Berlin lamp factory. Politburo Member Albert Norden asked assembled workers why, if they had complaints, they did not use the officially provided complaint book. "Sure," came a sneering voice, "it's always full, but no one ever reads it." Out in the potato country, Central Committee Functionary Bruno Wagner was told flatly by a farmer: "One ought to listen more to the West." Refugees arriving in West...
...nested set of aluminum skillets, bowls, cups, etc., sells for about $8, and a knife-fork-spoon combination that clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...
...cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter, a versatile instrument that can do almost anything but whistle Tenting Tonight...
...seems twice as bright (gives off twice as much usable energy) as it does to humans. Bathed in its lavender glow, leaves look dark blue-green, and Electrical Engineer Joseph Roland Morin, head of the team that developed Gro-Lux, predicts a great future for the off-color plant lamp. Long before it lights up indoor farms, it may be a boon to commercial florists. "In 20 years," says Morin, "you won't see any more conventional greenhouses...