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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operation. Several permanent members of the club have been sold land and permitted to build $100,000 homes in the development, but Grover and Harry have reserved the right to say how the house will be situated, what trees can be cut, and even what kind of roof will be built. They have also built a number of more modest A frame chalet-type houses which sell for around $25,000. Says Grover Robbins, "Nobody has to come in unless they like it." Apparently many people do like it, for the membership roster already reads like a North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Splendors at Home | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Awaiting them are roof gardens of white pebbles; hard coal and geraniums surround a penthouse cafeteria atop the pile. "They are a little like the hanging gardens of Babylon," says Rudolph. "Basically it is a village on top of a huge box." Function is served by the multilevel construction, since pharmaceuticals are manufactured by gravity-flow pipes and chutes that blend drugs, liquids or tablets. "It may seem too pretentious," says Rudolph, "but the building does not attempt to bury the flaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: In Pursuit of Diversity | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

Since the roof fell in last November, what the Republican Party needs least of all is splinters. But Goldwater's outfit is just one of many new G.O.P. splinter groups. Among the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Splinters | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...Jaffa's Alhambra Theater, practically everyone who was anyone in Israel was there: Premier Lev! Eshkol, Foreign Minister Golda Meir and the rest of the nation's official mishpachah. And when the curtain came down on the Hebrew adaptation of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof, who should rush backstage but the Premier himself. Said Eshkol after toasting the cast: "Nu, nu, it's not exactly Sholom Aleichem, but I have never enjoyed an evening in the theater so much in my life." Israel's most formidable critic, Chaim Gamzu-whose last name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 1965 | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

Most motel chains depend on an easily recognizable similarity to attract customers: Holiday Inns, for example, all have bright green neon signs, and Howard Johnson motor lodges feature the familiar orange roof. One chain has made a virtue of being different, though, and hardly has two establishments that are alike. It is Treadway Inns Corp., whose 28 hostels include such disparate stopovers as Nantucket's 120-year-old Jared Coffin House, once a whaler's mansion, a modern downtown motel in the Treadway headquarters town of Rochester, N.Y., and an Alpine chalet in Franconia, N.H., known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: The Colonial Innkeepers | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

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