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Freeport is the locale of a new residential colony on Long Island where a model house in splitlevel style has gone on display this week-end. Known as Stafford at Freeport, the group will consist of sixty dwellings to be built by Arthur Weiss and Ted Bogdanoff.
THEATRE FOR SHAKESPEARE. By Alfred Harbage. 118 pages, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
THERE is an old rule of politics which says, in free translation from the Irish: "To get an audience, create a disturbance."
Sweden qualified both finalists in the national indoor tennis championship yesterday, the first foreign country to do so since the all-French wind-up of 1927.
Quarles denies long-range missiles are 'ultimate' weapon, but calls them vital in 5-10 yrs; sees US, USSR developing all types of offensive and defensive missiles; queries USSR claim it now has missiles which can bombard US
1956Michel Houellebecq, French author, poet, screenwriter, and director[†]
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. His next novel, Atomised, published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. Platform followed in 2001. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]