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Rarely taller or more distinctive than the factories, mah-jongg parlors, bookshops and tile-roofed rooming houses that hem them in, Tokyo's overcrowded university buildings line traffic-trampled streets rather than wooded malls. While top-prestige Tokyo University (15,879 students) has a wall to set it off from the city's bustle, even it has no greenery that could properly be called a campus. At many of these schools it is even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only...
Harvard has already decided not to cover the outside of the House with an experimental tile finish, as had been proposed by Jean-Paul Carlhian, the architect. It decided last Spring to use pre-cast concrete instead, effecting a savings...
Santa Barbara, Calif., is a pleasant, red-tile-roofed community much favored by retired couples, but of late it has acquired a grave drawback: it is in close proximity to several Navy and Air Force bases, including Hamilton Air Force Base now being used by the over-2,000-m.p.h. SR-71 reconnaissance plane. As a result, Santa Barbara, by the count of one irate citizen, was bombed with a sonic boom for 75 successive days this summer. "It's ghastly," says Mrs. George M. Sidenberg, both the wife and mother of Navy aviators. "One boom nearly threw...
Down the hill from John is Sunny Heights, the 15-room tile-and-stucco digs where Ringo, 27, wallows in domesticity with Wife Maureen, a former Liverpool hairdresser, and Sons Zak, 2, and month-old Jason. Ringo, who never practices drums between Beatle performances, has made his place the group's unofficial clubhouse; on the spacious grounds are a treehouse and an old air-raid shelter, and indoors an elaborate bar named The Flying...
...week or so ago, Composer Walter Burle Marx, 64, was at the Municipal Theater directing the first performance of his Third Symphony. Haroldo Burle Marx, 55, is the wealthy manufacturer of Brazil's most exquisite jewelry. And Roberto Burle Marx, 57, is a Renaissance virtuoso: tapestry designer, tile glazer, chef, noted amateur baritone-and Latin America's most eminent landscape designer. For good measure, Roberto was displaying his recent paintings at a Rio gallery...