When Earl ("Flattop") Smith was president of the National Association of Home Builders last autumn, he invited ten top Russian housing administrators for a 30-day tour of 13 U.S. cities. Returning the compliment this summer, the Russians conducted San Francisco's Smith and 17 other American building experts on a Red-carpeted, 30-day junket through Soviet cities, gave them the best look at Soviet building that any U.S. group has ever had. Back in London last week the builders reported that Soviet construction moves at an impressively frantic pace, but that the workmanship is shoddy, the hand tools often primitive, the...
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