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...last year to only 2.8%, despite a 4% rise in wages, because they used more prefabricated sections in buildings and more laborsaving equipment. Despite restrictions in many of the nation's 10,000 building codes, contractors hope to save even more eventually by using such innovations as plastic pipe, lightweight sandwich-wall sections for houses, and bathrooms with the facilities molded in a single Fiberglas unit. Builders are not only experimenting with new materials, but with new shapes and concepts (see cover story in MODERN LIVING). One of the most unusual new office buildings is Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance...
...neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into the warp and woof of the carpet and then ground the whole thing onto a convenient water or radiator pipe. Since this adds about $1 to the cost per yard, it is too expensive for most offices...
...Graham Blaine, Jr., current University ogre, is not as foolish as dining hall conversation pictures him. Actually, he's Harvard '40 come of age, articulate, professional and pipe-smoking. One of ten psychiatrists to the University Health Services, Dr. Blaine lives quietly in Cambridge with his wife and three children, all girls...
...calling students by name; his voice, which had been familiar and accented over the mike in Burr B, here assumed the mellow intimacy of an all-night disc jockey. With the students in the living room, he was at home, scratching his head, wrinkling his brow, perpetually relighting his pipe; in his element. Interpersonal contact is Goodman's religion (it is, he asserts, his primary impetus in sexual activity with both men and women) and he has perfected the establishment of contact to a high degree of art. He maintains, correctly, that we live in a society starved of genuine...
...They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...