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Around the White House offices somber-faced staffers tiptoed across the squares of linoleum tile, whispered out their business as if some member of the official family were seriously ill. There was no laughter; tension ran higher than at any time since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack. In the spacious, green-carpeted corner office, only 30 paces from the President's own, worked Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, briskly shuffling papers, softly snapping monosyllabic orders as he had since the day that he became Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in January...
...near Hartford by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Partner Gordon Bunshaft (TIME COLOR PAGES, Sept. 16); the Stuart Co. pharmaceutical plant at Pasadena by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME COVER, March 31); two glass-façaded California school buildings by San Francisco's Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass-façaded Palm Springs specialty shop by Los Angeles Architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman. In addition, Pereira & Luckman lengthened their list of honors with an Award of Merit for Beckman Instruments' Helipot Division plant at Newport Beach, Calif., and Ed Stone picked up a similar...
...houses are hard to beat for the price. At Port Charlotte, the company sells ten different models of pastel-colored, concrete-block ranch-type houses from $6,960 (one bedroom, living room, kitchen and screened porch) to $16,260 (three bedrooms, living-dining area, two baths, garage, terrazzo floors, tile roof). The Mackles try to avoid the project look that afflicts many mass building areas by laying out streets in winding arcs, alternating models, setting houses at different angles, and surrounding them with fast-growing trees and shrubbery...
...have a small duplicate of Clyfford Still's Red and Black painting in my studio. I created it when I spilled some cadmium orange on my linoleum tile floor. I will be happy to sell...
After the war Al built a tile-roofed, Spanish-style mansion at the edge of the Hudson River palisades in New Jersey, built a loft. metal fence topped by barbed wire, installed lights and Doberman pinscher watchdogs, and settled down to the good life. He went to race tracks and took the sun in Florida and Hot Springs, Ark. This existence was interrupted in 1954 when the Government charged him with evading a paltry $12,000 in federal income taxes. Before the matter was settled two Government witnesses, an elderly couple, disappeared from their bloodstained Miami house...