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...then there's the Byzantine Studies Center, which may or may not be leaving its spacious residence at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. for less-palacial quarters in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Brother Is Moving You | 5/20/1977 | See Source »

...evening I arrived there, we drank ale out of large goblets and I watched Harriet light the kerosene lamps. I tried to picture the upper middle class high school cheerleader my cousin had married. I remembered his spacious Coral Gables house with its electronic gadgetry and heated swimming pool and compared it to the room I sat in, scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: A California Eden | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...leathery-faced Rhodesian tobacco farmer who sat sipping tea in the spacious lobby of Salisbury's Meikles Hotel had an automatic rifle slung incongruously across his lap. "If it comes to it," he told friends loudly, "I'll give up the farm, retreat here and pick off the buggers as they come through that door." Though still maintaining a confident front, reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs after a visit to Salisbury, white Rhodesia is becoming deeply demoralized. Last week's vote by the U.S. Congress to repeal the Byrd Amendment, under which the U.S. has been importing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Chimurenga and the Chicken Run | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...interior was spacious but its decor was neutral. Chiang Ch'ing was wearing a superbly tailored shirtwaist dress of heavy crepe de chine, with a full pleated skirt falling to midcalf, a style evocative of our early 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...million and $5 million this year and is planning to expand overseas. Like other dome makers, the company sells mostly to people who intend to use them as primary, year-round homes. Since a competent handyman can erect a house himself, with muscle power from family and friends, a spacious, three-bedroom dome built from a kit can cost as little as $25,000 (not including land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: HOME SWEET DOME | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

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