Word: patios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.H.B.'s $13,500 house is completely air-conditioned (heating and cooling), comes with all appliances, including a dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, has an attractive fenced patio and carport. Without these features it could cost as little as $9,600. N.A.H.B. President Nels Severin likes it so well that he plans to build one in San Diego...
Millionaire Franco Diligenti's 13-room mansion in Buenos Aires was merry with lights, flowers, a crowd of 500 and the world's only living quintuplets. The crowd, mostly teen-agers in semiformal dress, spilled from the parlor to the patio, swirled around the skating rink, tennis courts and swimming pool. The two Diligenti boys in tuxedos and the three girls in white tulle gracefully acknowledged congratulations on their 15th birthday, the coming-out age in Argentina. Beamed papa Diligenti to Family Dr. Carlos Montagna: "We did a damned good...
...After that, the bull just did not seem interested in anything. Matador Julio Aparicio, although the bull was his responsibility, made no move to dispatch him. When all else failed, the president of the ring sent a quick message to the chief ring attendant. The gate leading to the patio de caballos swung open, and into the ring, its ancient radiator spewing steam, rumbled the city of Toledo's water truck...
...retreat comes equipped with the standard swimming pool and cabanas; a lush lawn dotted with royal palms, hibiscus and ixora slopes down to the bay. New Orleans-style grillwork flanks the entrance. Low and relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled kitchen with built-in rotisserie. Upstairs are another living room and eight bedrooms-including...
ARTHUR WILLIAM CAMMER is a Los Angeles salesman of low-priced garden and patio furniture, whose orders this year are three to four times better than last. The fact only moves Salesman Cammer to complain: "My suppliers have become so panicky over the news of bad business that they can't ship my orders when I need them." Of such paradoxes is 1958's recession made, and rarely did they show more clearly than last week. The price of aluminum was cut, partly because of slow consumption, but the price of oil stayed up, despite huge excess supplies...