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...whose ever-increasing output (up 32% this year) now accounts for a quarter of all single-family homes built in the U.S. Mobile homes ordinarily win few architectural prizes, but lately builders have learned how to stack them in handsome configurations. At Puffton Village in Amherst, Mass., for instance, Magnolia Homes teamed up with a developer to create a striking community of 104 apartments from 12-ft. by 56-ft. sections hauled all the way from its plant at South Hill...
...Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps, no rifle volley. After a brief and simple service, the coffin flag was folded into a triangle for presentation to Ethel, and the band played America the Beautiful...
...Purchase of Two Decades" exhibit shows, there has been no simple pattern to Coolidge's acquisitions. Morris Louis' "Color Barrier" (1961) hangs across from a Japanese painted screen of Magnolia blossoms against a gold background, and a Rembrandt is close to a Persian miniature. The exhibit (and Coolidge's purchasing pattern) is heavy on 17th century Dutch works because few gifts have been received from that period, and light on Impressionist paintings, which Harvard received in abundance from the Wertheim bequest...
...much more slowly. Coercion and overt oppression are still the rule in the rural Georgia which sent restaurant owner, axe-handle distributor, confused and frightened Lester Maddox to the statehouse in 1966. And the Wallace phenomenon, he concedes, is a very serious and dangerous malignancy. "Wallace speaks the new 'Magnolia Mouthwash.' He doesn't use the old words, just the new words, the code words," McGill explains...
...House Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...