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...House. Partner Theodore Bernardi, 52, who won a merit award for the pleasantly informal redwood house he designed for himself, chose a hillside site for maximum privacy and view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them...
Architecturally, Adams includes two fragments of that vanished land, the Gold Coast, where the walls are dark with oak paneling, the windows small and leaded, the bathtubs crouch on scaley clawed feet, and the square swimming pool steams with the mosiac erudition of Xanadu...
Sweat at the Oak Bole. In Treece's version, King Arthur becomes Artos the Bear, a barrel-chested brute with blue dye on his cheekbones.* He is plowing his father's fields with a brace of bulls when blind old Ambrosius, one of the last of the Roman legionaries, by title the Count of Britain, stumbles upon him. By the old man's side walks Medrodus, his heir apparent, and at his side hangs a lustrous sword (Excalibur of old), sole remaining symbol of legal Roman power. No Lady of the Lake hands Artos the sword...
ATOMIC TOWNS built by the U.S. Government will be opened to private ownership. The AEC has decided to sell 10,000 houses, hundreds of commercial buildings and vacant lots in Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash., will give present residents priority, but will also sell to other homeowners and business interests. Assessed value: $89.5 million...
...ceiling-in an earlier building the children tore ordinary radiators apart. Walls are lined with rugged tile up to a height of seven feet. Thermostats are covered by grills. Door hinges are made so that they cannot be dismantled. Beds, like other furniture, are of rugged, 1¼-in. oak. "We tried steel beds before," says Dr. Waggoner, "and they only lasted a few months...