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...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...
Closer to Equality. At Bad Kreuznach, De Gaulle skillfully countered France's critics. In a show of moderation, he agreed that the 10% tariff cut and the minimum 20% increase in import quotas which the Common Market six will accord one another's goods beginning Jan. 1 should be temporarily extended to outside nations, while some kind of "multilateral association" is worked out between the six and the rest of Europe. This was not enough to satisfy Erhard. But Adenauer is desperately anxious for Germany to forge an unbreakable alliance with France...
FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...
...flexible new rules also scrap old regulations that tied architects' hands, kept architectural design from changing to meet new patterns of living. Builders no longer are bound by minimum-lot sizes and rigid house-placement rules, may vary developments as long as light, ventilation and outdoor-activity space are adequate. Once-banned inside kitchens are now allowed, saving the outer or window walls for living and sleeping space. So are new, low-cost bedsitting or kitchen-dining combinations. Also new: architects may choose from a wide variety of products as long as they meet careful performance tests...
Because Mason views the updating of FHA rules as a continuing task, the new minimum standards are published looseleaf, allowing builders to take out pages and insert new quality housing regulations as FHA keeps on keeping housing up-to-date...