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Then Lyndon turned to the next phase of political life: getting elected. One day, in 1937, while visiting an uncle in Houston, Lyndon was standing at the bathroom door, chatting while his uncle shaved. Spread across the washbasin was a Houston newspaper, with headlines announcing the death of Representative James P. Buchanan of Johnson's district. Said his uncle: "You can succeed Buchanan...
...start, Noyes flattened the top of the bubble for better looks, then sliced out big, 16-ft.-wide openings serving as both windows and doors. Inside, Noyes put a central core with heating plant, bathroom, kitchenette and storage closet, divided the remaining space into a roomy living-dining area on one side, two bedrooms on the other. For large families, says Noyes, "you can just blow another bubble and connect it with a breezeway...
Even the cheapest of the houses are the stuff of Indian dreams. Made of clay brick and concrete slabs they are to cost only $620 apiece, have two rooms, a separate bathroom and lavatory, a porch, a courtyard garden and a separate kitchen with running water. To keep cool in summer and warm in winter, each house will have what Le Corbusier calls "sunbreakers" - deeply recessed windows that will keep out the sun's hot rays when it is directly overhead, but will allow them to enter when the sun moves southward later in the year...
...little more at night. In New Delhi, the government has requisitioned practically all housing, and what's left doesn't fit the Western idea of home. When James Burke got there, he rented a house way out in Old Delhi and had to put in his own bathroom." Inflation has boosted rents almost everywhere, Neville said, but he remembered one instance when inflation worked out to his advantage. He had rented a house in Buenos Aires for seven months for 1,600 pesos a month. At the start of the lease period, that was about...
...depends on whose baby it is. If it is your baby, hold it. There was a feeling 20 years ago that you should teach children to control themselves, that ten days after the baby was born you should put it in the bathroom, shut the door, turn up the radio and let the baby cry itself out. But I think the baby has the right to have the love of its mother for at least several months or a year...