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Parkchester TePrWilts putstand-- 1 Int achievement In modern archite0-- 1 tural design sod engineering Keynote In the construction were' simplicity and standardisation inside and out for! economy purposes- - On the interior' building design centered around the det velopment of three different core plans containing the service element--st- airt wells elevator shaft pablio corridors! d the' Incinerators slop sinks kitchen and foyers of those apartments which were to adjoin them The second phase of the Interior design was the development of 1va basis wing plans to Connect with the cores Each of the 'wings provides for two dwelling unitk Ver floor containing one or two bed rooms Combination of a core with any at the wings produces a building unit Into four quadis rants separated by the main traits arteries 'Actually each quadrant is a - residential project and the size of any one of: thrie of them has pever been equalled in the United States elthrt by government or Private enterprise Ea terior design of the buildings is also standardised although only a few of the structures look exactly alike ' Not the lead Important In the plans - fortexterior development were the pro visions tor wholesome outdoor environ flent rits a result in the area are elev d eral thousand trees hand some Iswns and a wealth ofshrubbery Every 'building has a play area and s variety of play and sport equipment Decauts: resent facilities were not adeqUate it as ‘necessary to provide Parkchester with its own shopping cotter 'Floor space has been allotted for 200 itores in the area There are twee banks and the development has its own postoffice and police departnient Providing heat for Parkchester's buildings undoubtedly constituted the biggest most difficult problem of 'Its kind ever Confronted in a stogie bul14 ing project The beating medium is sub atmospheric iteam generated in the large central beating plant' The plant bent-tu- b has four boilers each producing 135000 pounds of steam per hipir at a pressure of 100 pounds per square' ineh- - The steam distribution ”t k11 l'44 s A 01 40 4 0 t ItI 11 : 4 - - mm' - limApploop ipmb ofimmodp - a tVon'- of ppritchestfmt showl111 coPft thi Mr flu"! Or 9r0 - - : ' ' - newly-plante- ANNUM r e k I '''- jolters In turnishitt 4 t Pmpared especially for this vacs by the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History la Nets York City ) HE full at 3:17 TThat PM (EST) Tuesday July rise at evening it moon will bp on B '( - - - antral bating plant r bvUdlns Ii This Week in the Sky -- - t - z Additional evidence the pneumonis is a contagious disease is reported in The Journal-othe American Medical Ass° elation Wine instances of cross infec tiou in the cbildvents ward et the Citl cinctsti Ventral Hospital were cited f "A I Rustpraoling steel by atomically diffusing a guitabis metal on its surfacethus doing aWar with alloying steel with chromium' Is a new pT0Ce511 cfp9rte4 - ) IPov0tesvvm It - 4 - 'cicyslos!d In GermanY t 4 Medical :Association 1 1 r' : "DI Y THE application of surface ants thesia followed immediately by se- tive motion such conditions of impaired' function due to sprains and pulled mils Chit can he 06 treated that immediate tonna Use of the affected part can be allowed!tn a majority of cases it is repoAedin The JOUTTIIII of the Anericau ' oil-fir- ed k: Sclince Milostono$-o- f ete-an- ' lo$0$$ ffeull rtftlott !1411f 01114 is well-plann- ed - r1'zoNrip ranked alongside the Empire State' Building and Boulder Pew among the giant productions of mates engineering twins A city within city It Plight well be tbe forerunner of prot etS which would turn New York City and other metropolises intq p collection of 8111511er concentrated communities' : I of these are apartment buildings ranging in height from six to 12 stories There are five ramp garages a theater which seats 2000 people and a separate building which furnishes the heat forl4 this imposing development 'j It is almost as difficult to find words' to describe Parkchester's enormity as it II to give an adequate description pi the i Grand CanTon so imposing arts these monuments to modern i living What Mikes it more impressive is the fact that the entire development is laid out in only one-fifof a square' 129 'acres-abomile! Yet only 274 per cent of the land Is covered by buildings the balance' being devoted to recreational areas streets parkways and landscaping Thet area Parkchester covers would In only Albuquerque N 31i 'n small part Mansfield Ohio' Easton Pa or Newl 1ort News Va but it is bigger in re gard to population than any of Closet ' 01 system between heating plant and build ings required more than 14000 linear feet of piping and the condensate: ros turn required a simnel!' amount The heating is so equipped that if in the futureplant pII costa Make it more economical to Use foal' the switch tan be made MI trouble The planti also will be Witle of generating its: own electricity should the peed arise Parkchester trulT is an iiMszing chap' ter in the history 'cif ilotiting unique in building construction It Must be - ' ' I - I As - 1 - t tir- 1 e - tv14414"toNteittit parkchester apartments largest housing prolect 11 boithe'r-hoin of 40000 people - "1"4 — elet :144 4 rf - - - photos Courtesy Metropolitan Life Insurance Co Ono lvf the 12273 dwelling units In Porkcitester Apartments range in size from two to 'five rooms World ilia lasoroed b Ilkat features Iltai llosts Ins will sunset The planet Venus' which until recently has shown In the east aa a morning star is now beginning to take its place in the west after sunset It sets a little'less than azs hour after the sun but ill apsky nth night Pearhigher in the and by the end of the month will become a eonspieuous'objeet Through a telescqpi this planet ibows phases veryilmuch as the moon does Being nearer than we ere to the sun its yest is shorter than ours In fact a year on Venus is only 225 days in lengths di - A neat instrument called the phitepter determines almost sutomatically wits or glasses are' needed With the manipulation of dials and knobs while the patient looks into the instrument the lent powers are automatically added and the total required correction appears on an indicator At the present time prescriptions for 'lasses are arrived at by inserting different lenses into a frame the lenses being chanted until the patient sees clearly A University-o- f Minnesota research scientist has been awarded a patent en a method of treating domestie oils so that they will' pongee the intPortnnt properties of tune oil an imported product that is widely used lg paints varnishes and lacquer" 0 to locate the peeltlett lee bullets and shell fragments In wounded men far from hospital facilities a new machine is being cone portable structed for the U S Army The ma chine ieo fast that it Altll permit exams ination of one patient a minute Designed x-r- ay S - |