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...built their two- story, five-room house for $6,000 out of logs and cement. It is a handsome, organically grown house with unpredictable flourishes: the door handle made out of a part from a lawn mower, the recesses in the stone walls for candles, the richly ornate wood carvings throughout. Although the Oests don't have plumbing, a telephone or a well, they do have electricity and a refrigerator they bought for $10 from a neighbor who later shot himself because his condominiums failed...
...students who turned out for last weekend's meeting with two of the overseers elected last June on the Alumni Against Apartheid slate--Duke University Professor Peter Wood '64 and Consuela Washington--focussed their remarks almost exclusively on divestiture. While that issue is a pressing one, its tendency to eclipse all others doesn't do much to open the University...
...Wood made light of the fact that only two ofsix newly elected overseers attended Saturday'sforum. Former MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner '37and Pulitzer Prize-winning author FrancesFitzGerald '62 were originally scheduled toattend, but later bowed out because of othercommitments...
...only two out of six that showed up andits the two out of six that you've never heardof," Wood said...
Squirrels raid the chestnuts, chew the metal signs on the trunks, now and then attack the bark, but they are merely scolded with affection. Earlier this year a pair of mallards dropped in on the grounds and got amorous in the swimming pool. Then some wood ducks decided to raise their young ones in the crotch of a huge ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) down on the South Lawn, led them to frolic in the fountain, then sent them off to the wilds with a quack...