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...architects, builders and manufacturers met in Manhattan in a housing conference called by the building magazine HOUSE & HOME, drew up a blueprint for the kind of house Americans should have. Fifteen points were agreed on. The most important: houses should have more space for living and storage. Other points: year-round air conditioning, two baths, a fully equipped kitchen and laundry (builders can buy appliances from distributors substantially below prices available to individual buyers), at least a 100-amperes electric service system, more acoustical tile and heavier walls to cut down on noise, full insulation to save on heating...
...remodeled into a fine small museum, installed a small part of his 4,000-work collection of masters. Then he startled easygoing Cape Codders by decreeing black tie the style at his lavish parties.* He sparked the move to stage a nationwide art festival, smooth-talked some 300 year-round residents into contributing their time and effort free "for the good of Provincetown." He acts as second ticket-taker at his museum (and makes the volunteer workers pay the going $1.50 for the catalogue), while his wife Jean handles lunch-relief shifts at the festival gates. Some Provincetowners have found...
...survived its roles as a furniture warehouse in World War I and a dance hall in World War II, Covent Garden is blooming as radiantly as the famed flower market at its doorstep. The home of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), it gives Londoners an almost year-round season of first-rate ballet and fine opera, although, in the opera department, Covent Garden is not in the same league as the Big Three (the Metropolitan, La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper). But it has the daring to experiment with difficult new productions, e.g., its mounting last year...
Opulence & Elements. Alaska has already made a running start with the resource of people. Anchorage, near the Kenai Peninsula, vibrates with a population of 35,000, has an opulent subdivision of $35,000 homes built by enterprising Wally Hickel. Two tall apartment houses peak the skyline, a glassed-in, year-round swimming pool ripples within sight of icy mountains, and fashionably dressed men and women frequent the Westward Hotel's spiffy cocktail lounge. Juneau still straggles with dingy, narrow streets from the roaring gold-rush times. Local phone service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road...
...Sputnik and the crisis in American education have done their work to sober up the traditional week of reckless abandon, when the "old grads" return to Cambridge, and to the "bright college days" of ten, twenty-five, or fifty years ago. Being a Harvard alumnus has become a year-round...