Word: villas
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...Scott, who had served as TIME'S Saigon bureau chief from 1972 to 1974, the journey was both an exciting new adventure and an exercise in nostalgia. He revisited the magazine's old outpost at Villa No. 10 of Phnom-Penh's Samarki Hotel, where he had spent many a week monitoring the war. There, he says, "I found a shambles of broken glass, overturned furniture and mangled typewriters." The scene stirred memories for Scott: "I recalled that on the last night of U.S. bombing in Cambodia, the windows of the old hotel were rattling as usual...
...arrange for campsites, make dinner, shuttle passengers in and out, and bar the door to undesirables, which in this case means the press. Inside, the rain is a nearer enemy than the power plant--tents and tarps spring up, some Himalya-proof homes, other makeshift shelters, like the "Poncho Villa" erected by four Harvard students...
...Democratic presidential candidate, to further criticism. And for all his impressive legal credentials, even Halvonik was not everyone's idea of an appellate judge. A jazz player who moved his piano into his Sacramento office in 1975, when he worked for the Governor, Halvonik, who sports a Pancho Villa mustache, had once before been caught with a marijuana cigarette, but on that occasion the charge was dropped...
Following the angriest Mexican-American confrontation since General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing chased Pancho Villa south of the border in 1916, the two countries last week initialed an agreement for the sale of 300 million cu. ft. of gas daily at an initial price of $3.63 per 1,000 cu. ft. The gas involved amounts to less than 1% of total U.S. consumption and is far under the 2.2 billion-cu.-ft.-per-day deal envisaged in July 1977 when Pemex, the Mexican state oil company, signed a letter of intent with six American pipeline companies...
DIED. Gio Ponti, 87, innovative Italian architect, designer and founding publisher (in 1928) of Domus, a leading Italian architectural journal; of cancer; in Milan. Ponti's varied projects included a villa for the Shah of Iran, a ministry of industrial development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes...