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Closing the Critical Gap. The showpiece of the sound-conditioned home is the bathroom. Not only is its door
3/4-in. solid-core wood, but it has a panel at the bottom that slides flush with the floor upon closing, eliminating that critical acoustical gap found at the bottom of most bathroom doors. To ensure further privacy, most builders added extra insulation to bathroom walls wrapped pipes in rubber, and installed toilets that flush almost without a sound...
...full of intelligent attempts at essay writing and imaginative touches (like the marvelous montage, "The Harvard Architectural Museum"). But the final impression is of a rushed job: the sections on Presidents Pusey and Gilbert are just tired speeches, obviously stuffed in at the last moment to full a copy gap; typographical errors abound (Stanley Hoffmann and Myron Gilmore must have been amused at the spelling of their names); and much of the writing is loose and imprecise, like a first draft...
...Gap & Lag? Once back in Houston, back to his wearing schedule, back to the demands of days filled with life-and-death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...
These new offerings, Nye said last night, will give undergraduates "complementary courses" which they otherwise would have missed. "Sure there'll be a gap," he said, "but it will hurt only those students who have planned poorly and waited until their senior year to take Kissinger and Hoffmann...