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...more houses like it in Pougny, on the French side of the French-Swiss border; near Grenoble there is a similarly constructed new restaurant, and soon there will be a hotel, a psychiatric clinic and a church, all in France, plus a gas station in Belgium and a resort hotel on Minorca-every one built along egg-shaped lines...
...usermann sees no reason why his egg houses need nest in solitary splendor on the beach or perch on the edge of cliffs. For Paris he is just finishing an athletic club unlike anything ever seen before. On Spain's Costa Brava he is designing a whole resort town that will grow out of the rocks like a bulbous cactus. These days, Häusermann likes to recall that when he presented as a student project three great pyramidal structures honeycombed with individual oval living units, his professors objected that "Pretty soon the planet will be covered with nothing...
This view is supported by precedent in the history of the House. Rule 238 of Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of exclusion and expulsion were not maintained distinct -- giving Congress dangerously broad discretionary power -- the treatment of Powell, if based on his legal troubles in New York, remains unjustified. His libel case is still under appeal...
...concerned, we're roughing it now," said Daniel Hawley, lounging with his wife in front of their self-contained, $13,000 Cortez bus camper, while their three children splashed in the swimming pool at Florida's Fiesta Key Resort. Near by, Joseph Haigh and his wife took the sun beside their Dodge camper, a 27-ft.-long bus that, when fully equipped with stainless-steel galley, stall shower, toilet and bunks for six, can cost more than $16,000. "We're land cruisers now," says Haigh, who gave up a lifetime of boating after...
Although hovercraft are still a novelty in North America and in most other parts of the world, they are becoming familiar in Britain, where they work as ferries between coastal resort towns and ply the cross-Channel route between England and France. Experimental military and civilian hovercraft skim along waterways and across marshes in Britain. And the hovercraft principle of using a thin layer of air to move heavy loads is finding increasing applications in British industry and transportation...