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Leaving Out Gimmicks. Not all builders agree that tight money and the weather are wholly to blame for the industry's ills. Some fear that the housing industry is pricing itself out of the market with elaborate, cost-laden homes that many potential home buyers cannot afford. Says Milton J. Brock Jr., former president of the Southern California Home Builders Association, who has cut prices on his homes by leaving out many built-in gimmicks that the buyer can later install himself: "The main thing is to put the buyer in a house. Every time we try to build...
...Unsung Milton. Life for the 50 Cistercians at Poblet last week was one of winter's cold, cold joys. In rooms where the temperature averaged about 40° F., they devoted almost all their labors to the printing of books in Latin, Castilian and Catalan. Their printing equipment was up to the minute, but the only stove stood glowing in the doorkeeper's lodge. To that lodge came now and again a flint-faced, intensely devout blacksmith from the neighboring hamlet of Espluga de Francoli...
...over the past two years, employing a craft knowledge inherited from Gothic times, which persists in Spain as nowhere else. Screens and iron chandeliers had come from Ramon Martí's hands. But it was with a crucifix for a Poblet chapel that Martí, a "mute, inglorious Milton" if there ever was one, had shown himself a son and proper heir of the early Gothic tradition at its most triumphant...
...Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University; Walter J. Donnelly, U.S. Steel's Latin American representative; G. Kenneth Holland, president of the Institute of International Education; O. A. Knight, president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union; Sears, Roebuck Vice President Charles A. Meyer in charge of Latin American branches; Dana G. Munro, former director of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...
Unlike long novels, long poems are firmly out of fashion, and in some ways the fact is regrettable. There is an exhilaration, a knowledge of manliness gained by the reader who establishes his base camps on, say, Milton's Paradise Lost, climbs from couloir to crag, and at last reaches the summit. Now Poet Kenneth Koch, an instructor in humanities at Columbia College, has defied the trend by writing a 115-page comic poem, a kind of lesser Catskill among epics, which offers a not very strenuous practice climb with hot-dog stands every hundred yards...