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...first real indicators of inflation after seven years of relative stability. Last week they almost found them. Three big shoe companies announced price increases of 4% to 5%; loading charges at many ports were hiked 5% to 12%; prices of glass containers went up more than 3%, and floor tile 5%. Tags on paper, sugar and chemicals also grew. Steel fabricators, pondering the new labor contracts with higher wages and fringes, hinted heavily of forthcoming boosts...
...speedy, efficient pantry for Continental breakfasts: one man, instead of the usual three, takes an order on the telephone, warms rolls and pours coffee while the elevator moves, then delivers it to the proper floor. Another Tabler innovation: a strip of black paint in place of black tile on the bottom of closets (saving...
...gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss Parmelin's text. The period covered is 1954-63, when Picasso, working with explosive exuberance, immortalized his lovely model (and later, second wife), Jacqueline Roque, on canvas and also in sheet metal, cast iron and ceramic tile...
...fashioned barbecue is a week-end attraction. The atmosphere is more like that of a club than an ordinary resort since most of the guests return more than once. Social life centers around the main building, the Cloister, an expansive three-story building that is done in Spanish red-tile fashion. Though there is a band for dancing in the evenings, spirited nightlife is almost nonexistent. First-time guests at Sea Island usually take a room at the Cloister (summer rates $32-$49 a day double with meals), but regulars usually rent one of the privately owned houses...
Rising high in the center stands a bronze fountain, girdled beneath by the 22-ft.-long Scroll of Isaiah; the fountain sends a jet of water through an opening in the dome to baptize the exterior tile. Says Kiesler: "It is a purification, just as the Dead Sea sect purified themselves in water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor...