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...former Newsweek Managing Editor John Denson, 55, the Trib is trying to find a level of its own. What that level may be is not readily discernible. Under Denson, the Trib's tidy front page, which used to win beauty prizes, has taken on the look of a parquet floor-all overblown pictures, klaxon headlines (THE LIBERTY...
...education reporter no longer looks at the schoolroom picture windows or handsome parquet floors shown off by proud principals; instead, he is interested in the teachers and the students. After the first Russian Sputnik restimulated interest in education in 1957, says Education Editor Richard Philbrick of the Chicago Tribune, there "was a sudden increase in interest in the curriculum and the scholastic standards. The newspapers merely reflected this change in emphasis...
Wooden Wallpaper. A wallpaper with a .003-in. covering of grained and stained walnut, birch or cherry wood was put on sale by Chicago's Denst & Soderlund Associates, Inc. The paper, made in West Germany, comes in rolls, or in squares for parquet effect on walls. Price...
...vacationers made their way out safely aboard the ferry, City of Havana, with rebels carrying their luggage. Other tourists slept in hotel lobbies, guarded by armed bellhops wearing July 26 arm bands. Che Guevara led 600 of his bearded mountain warriors into Havana and bedded them down on the parquet floors of the ballroom of the Havana Hilton Hotel...
...floor (8 ft.) doors and windows that simplify building. They also improve air circulation, make the house's six rooms seem much more spacious. Another cost-cutter: African-oak floor squares laid directly on the concrete foundation slab; they are only half as thick as ordinary wood parquet flooring yet are just as durable...