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...existing house in greater Los Angeles was $114,200-in the nation, it was $71,800. But who can find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco 1940s house on a lot the size of a gas-station road map. Asking price: $269,000. A plump woman walking by wearing a muumuu said, "It may sound high, but you pay to be close to the beach. The air is better." Down at the beach in Santa Monica...
...firm's best-known buildings is the controversial Palace in Miami. It consists of a plain 41-story slab with a three-story glass-cube penthouse on top. Rammed right through the side of the slab is what seems like another, smaller building of glass and red stucco. For added drama (and terrace patios), the red interloper steps down like giant stairs...
...marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts." Robert Frost, Hart Crane and John Dos Passes are only a few of the competing ghosts. By now live writers are so thick on the ground that the pink stucco Monroe County Public Library publishes a pamphlet: Key West: Writers in Residence (latest announced total...
...congratulate me." Next morning Jesus went off to work at the El Paso Natural Gas Co. Within hours he was back home. "My wife was crazy, running in the street and screaming. The neighbors were holding her." Two Marines in full-dress uniform had come to their immaculate little stucco house and told Manuela Muñoz that her son was, after all, dead...
Vitale's family-owned concern, head quartered in a two-story stucco factory in Turin, was founded in 1916 as a manufacturer of men's socks. His parents fled to Switzerland in 1943 to escape Fascist antiSemitism, but returned to Turin after World War II to rebuild their shattered plant. When Vitale left school to join the company full time in the late 1960s, he immediately set out to diversify it. "In this world," he says, "it's very important to understand things 15 minutes before somebody else...