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...neighbor's $100,000 clifftop mansion, a psychiatrist's $75,000 eyrie, and about half of a $1,000,000, three-year-old apartment complex below them. One of the few residents who refused to evacuate the area was Mrs. Clara Bartlett-she lost only the patio of her $150,000 home. The overall damage is estimated at more than...
Edwards and Carter quickly got into a fuss over when Edwards should give up the 18-room, three-story presidential mansion-a key fringe benefit to augment the post's $16,000 salary. One morning, Edwards was reading on his patio when the caretaker discovered that the water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged...
...better solution, the antigovernment coalition feels, would be Valencia's resignation. "Anyone who wants to remove me from San Carlos Palace," he said, "will have to pause in the patio to shoot me first...
Residential and recreational areas will be woven together so closely that some Restonians will be able to chip onto a nearby green from their patio, others to watch their horses grazing a few steps away, still others cast off from their own bulkheads, motorboat across the lake, and moor a few feet away from their favorite store. Its houses will be built around dead-end streets, thus keeping children well away from hurtling through-traffic. Because no part of any village will be more than ten minutes away by foot, most travel will be confined to tree-lined walkways...
Induced Meditation. Visitors must enter from a sunken patio below the wall, instinctively ducking as they pass through the low bronze gates. Once inside, they move down a dim 70-ft. corridor, whose ominous overhead arching is shaded from grey into black. At the end beckon gleaming golden doors, which will open automatically as visitors approach and release them into the dazzling dome (see overpage...