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Working against time, the Poles painstakingly detached 120 frescoes and reaf-fixed them to thin layers of plastic reinforced by plywood boards. Sixty of the detached frescoes were shipped upstream to the Sudanese archaeological museum at Khartoum, the remainder to Warsaw...
...Living in a mobile home can be surprisingly comfortable. Rooms are airy, and only the corridors are cramped. Skyline homes come furnished with chairs, couches, beds, carpeting, and even pictures on the plywood interior walls. A 60-ft. by 12-ft. model, which usually includes a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and bath, can cost as little as $4,000, though most are somewhat more. Two units, bolted together on the site to make a 60-ft. by 24-ft., three-bedroom home, usually go for $10,000 to $15,000. Sales are principally to retired people, bachelors and newlyweds...
Across the street from the White House, the Nixons have permitted, though they did not officially sponsor, what may well be the sprightliest exhibition of contemporary art in town. There, a plain gray plywood fence had been built around Lafayette Park while construction work is going on. Depressed by the sight, Jane Shay, a staffer at the nearby National Trust for Historic Preservation, organized a one-day paint-in by a group of Washington high school art students. The result was a half-mile mural in which green trees, pink pigs, pilgrims, bare-breasted Indian maidens and parades mingle with...
Died. Allan Lockheed, 80, aviation pioneer and co-founder of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (TIME, May 30); of liver cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. A onetime barnstormer, Lockheed began designing planes in 1911. His company was a pioneer in the use of radical streamlining and molded plywood wings and fuselages. When Lockheed left the company in 1929, he had already made his place in aviation history with the Lockheed Vega, a swift, dependable monoplane that was favored by such adventurers as Wiley Post, Frank Hawks and Amelia Earhart...
...reached epidemic proportions. Behold! A hot-air grate, raised on a walnut stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble-gum machines, wind-up phonographs, toy steam engines, pieces of farm machinery, embossed advertisements-in fact, any of the detritus of industrialism. It is wanted...