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...simply a matter of economics," explains CBS Programmer Hubbell Robinson Jr. "The winter shows cost so much we have to cut down in summer and save money." Some old favorites will stay on, encouraged perhaps by the upswing in sales of portable TV models to vacationing patio and beach viewers. But mostly this summer's TV will be a rehash of the late season's mediocrity, with a few raw replacements thrown in. Network by network...
...Noyes house, set in a pine grove just above a brook, harks back to Greek and Roman town houses, built around a central patio. Designed to accommodate a family that includes four children aged four to 16, a squirrel, a rabbit, two French poodles, a parakeet and two ring-necked doves, the house is, says Noyes, "a very hard-boiled piece of architecture." It is basically two houses set in a rectangle formed by side walls of fieldstone and glass. Carried out in a strict modular pattern (columns and girders joining at 11-ft. intervals), the design provides for living...
...Hungarian revolution, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty has been living in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. Mindszenty, forced by Russian intervention to seek refuge, lives in a two-room apartment, gets his meals from the legation kitchen, works on his memoirs and takes infrequent strolls in a gloomy little patio in the legation compound. Though the legation keeps him supplied with newspapers (including the Paris Herald Tribune), the protocol of diplomatic refuge forbids him to receive or send letters or to use the telephone...
...Experimentalist Kiesler, whose radical departures have landed him more commissions for models than buildings, the World House was the first opportunity in decades to see his continuous-flowing forms grow to lifesize. Inside the entrance, an aluminum-covered ceiling slopes upward toward a two-story interior patio with a white marble island surrounded by a jet-fed black glass pool. A glass-sided stairway leading to the second floor is supported at pinpoints on a white Alabama marble cantilever protruding from a structural steel pillar that swells and tapers below like one of Brancusi's Endless Columns, expands above...
When completed in October 1957, the Oberoi Intercontinental will have an acre-large artificial lily pond for boating, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a glassed-in rooftop restaurant, 20 stores clustered around a patio. Cost, including land and fixtures: $2,250,000. Last week, on a flying trip to the U.S., Oberoi was busy negotiating a deal to bring Pan American World Airway's Intercontinental Hotel Corp. into the operation of his new hotel, match its topflight facilities with equally modern management...