Word: prefabs
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...English pub stands by its tipplers through everything from trouble with the missus to trouble with the telly. Now it is being called to higher duty to buck up Britain's exports. Packed in crates and complete with everything from dartboards to mullioned windows, prefab pubs are finding a ready market overseas...
Pike made sallies against subjects from birth control (don't play "Vatican roulette (the rhythm method), see your doctor,") to the Church doctrine that Christ's mother was' a virgin ("Jesus wasn't prefab...
...explained at last in an Advent address in Manhattan's St. Thomas Church. "Keeping quiet at some points is a question of knowing one's place before God." Then Pike resumed his place as his church's champion of unorthodoxy: "The church seems to prefer prefab answers. But when we try to erect finalities, we fall into the worst heresy of all-idolatry...
Construction men now use the whirlybirds to lift church steeples and TV towers, telephone poles and prefab homes. The machines have become the most up-to-date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion...
Still, it is one of the realities of symphony life that players' salaries in the top 25 orchestras last year averaged only $5,267. The cultural explosion has attracted wider support, but resources are still woefully lacking. Though performing-arts centers are shooting up as fast as prefab bungalows, many orchestras must play under less than ideal conditions. The New Orleans Philharmonic, which performs in the Municipal Auditorium, often has to compete with the roars from a wrestling match on the other side of the wall; concerts in St. Louis' Kiel auditorium are punctuated with cheers at Hawks...