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Citation: "One of the many stellar products that Brooklyn has sent into spacious orbit...
...these questions to Jacques Soustelle as he relaxed, from a killing schedule of speeches and political conferences, in the Villa des Oliviers. a spacious Moorish residence surrounded by palms, bougainvillaea and armed paratroopers. The number of Deputies Algeria will send to the National Assembly is a problem of secondary importance, declared Soustelle. "The real crux of the matter is that the Algerian Moslems want integration, not independence or any other formula. The events of the past two weeks have been a plebiscite...
...school principal, he became a distinguished chemist in his own right, headed the University of Moscow during the period when its skyscraper (39 stories) campus became the tallest structure in Europe east of the Eiffel Tower. With his wife, who was once one of his students, Nesmeyanov has a spacious apartment near the academy and a sizable dacha outside of town. Though a member of the party and a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet, he is anything but a dull-minded party hack. As a top member of the Soviet elite, he is friendly and debonair, with a squire...
...When Pop vents his heroic belches, he sounds like Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. Pop is little seen in the strawberry fields, for he roams the countryside on a spivishly freewheeling enterprise called "the scrap iron lark," which nets him a 600% profit, a margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...
...towering TV antenna in the form of Mohammed's sword. For his more mundane second commission, a central post office building, Wright sunk the main floor 11 ft. into the earth to get away from the heat, screened the glass sides with pendant iron grille, left a spacious interior garden court with fountains...