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...story home, built on a concrete slab, will have seven bedrooms, 5½ baths and will cost an estimated $70,000. There will be no swimming pool. Instead, the Kennedys have dug out an acre and a half for a man-made lake, and will stock it with bass, perch and bluegills...
...contested ballots are to be submitted to a panel of three district court judges; whatever the panel decides, the loser is almost certain to take the issue to the state Supreme Court. Until it reaches a decision, Elmer Andersen remains Governor-on about as precarious a political perch as ever existed anywhere...
Although a highly-placed University official estimated the throngs at more than 100, the CRIMSON will nevertheless hold another introductory meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. The highly-placed officials has since been returned to his perch atop the Lampoon building...
...less momentous than the Act of 1824 that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will also abolish pennyweight, scruple and drachm...
...Saint-Gobain. The U.S.'s Reynolds Metals is breaking ground near Delphi for a $59 million aluminum plant using Greece's ample reserves of bauxite, and Dow Chemical has opened a polystyrene plant at Lavrion, site of ancient Greek gold and silver mines. From the rocky perch near Athens where Xerxes once helplessly watched his mighty Persian armada being turned back by the tiny fleet of ancient Greece one can see welders' torches winking blue in the three-year-old Niarchos Shipyards. Not far away, a scaffolding marks the building site of Greece's first steel...