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...Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone. Demand for rental housing is at an alltime high, but construction has virtually ceased. Many cities are packed with vast, vacant building sites like the one cleared two years ago in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park for its still-unbuilt 39-story "Twin Oaks" residential complex. Some 900 construction firms went bankrupt from January through July. Many of them were small local outfits, but the failures also include a dozen publicly held firms that do business on a national scale...
...unrelated stories are superb. The more striking of these, called The Millies, is the best piece of short fiction in some time. Updike has captured the hostility between culture and counterculture in the U.S., complete and entire, in about eight pages. He tells of an unbuilt, rocky hill in the center of Tarbox, his fictional Massachusetts town. There the young of the town begin roosting in a large untidy flock. They do very little; smoke some pot, drink a little beer, look down silently and passively on the activity of Main Street. The passivity, the looking-down, the doing-very...
...Harry S. Truman Library contains 9.3 million documents, the Franklin D. Roosevelt 22 million, the Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.5 million, the Herbert Hoover 4.6 million, and the as yet unbuilt John F. Kennedy Library will contain 17 million documents...
...even after Long Beach Federal S & L settled its fight with the bank board. Finally, Watt hired a computer, made 31 separate runs over the possibilities of profit and cash return, and decided to take the gamble. Since then, the company has also announced plans to take over the unbuilt portion of a grandiose Middlesex County, N.J., project that went into receivership five years...
Becker's hero is Engineer Bernard Morrison, who has built many things but never a bridge. At 43, he finally gets his chance. His bridge must span a gorge at the end of an unbuilt road in the South American Guianas. Morrison is vexed that neither bridge nor road seems to go anywhere. "Never mind," says his American boss. "Just build a bridge...