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Cambridge's Architects Collaborative has proposed a split-level pedestrian walkway which would leap-frog the streets and buildings of Harvard Square...
Later Hatred. In later years, the colonels and the country folk developed a special hatred-this one for the Communists, who provoked civil war. In Dirahion, a split-level village where a fast-running mountain stream divides the town, the wrinkled village clerk explains why. "It was in 1947, right there," he says pointing. "Ioannis Ladas' mother tried to run across the street, carrying a baby nephew in her arms. Guerrillas shot her down, killed them both. She was a good woman." In Elaiohorion, Mayor and Cafe Proprietor Nikos Papathanasou, a distant cousin of Papadopoulos, was tortured by Communists...
...many older suburbanites and is often tragically reflected in the behavior of their children. Suburban vandalism, drug offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than...
There is a triple tragedy in this. Most important, it will mean the flight of profits out of the community -- probably into the suburbs as soon as the black entrepreneur can afford to use the profits to buy a split-level. It will also mean the loss of the entrepreneur's talent--for his creative skill will go into making his own fortune, not into helping the community...
...ground station at Brewster Flat, Wash. There the signal was ricocheted off the Lani Bird 2 satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, picked up in Ibaraki, Japan, and relayed through Tokyo to an additional 600 stations and millions of homes. From stadium to Scarsdale split-level to sake bar in Tokyo, the entire 100,000-mile journey took only a little more than half a second...