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...natural body build or bone structure. She may react to this either by trimming down mercilessly and suffering near starvation; or she may surrender to the neurotic pleasures of overeating?all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted in an ocean of nonsense about wrinkle erasers and pep medicines. Actually, the less anxiety is associated with the inevitable aging process, the better...
Service with the Ventura County Civil Defense Organization convinced Californian Richard Doremus that residential nuclear fallout shelters are essential to the nation's total defense. Experience as a home builder convinced Doremus that he was the man to get things going in the "Exhibit Homes" development he was building in the Los Angeles suburbia of San Fernando Valley. For prospective buyers of his $29,500 to $31,500 houses, Doremus offered a bomb shelter under the garage for $1,100 extra. The small...
...experience of the trend buckers offers an obvious prescription for attracting U.S. investment in 1961: the open encouragement of private enterprise. Three of the four nations that increased their intake of U.S. capital in 1960 have tough-minded builder Presidents: Chile with Industrialist Jorge Alessandri, Colombia with austerity-minded Alberto Lleras Camargo, Argentina with its determined foe of statism, Arturo Frondizi. As for Brazil's free-swinging Jânío Quadros, U.S. businessmen have concluded from his performance so far that he promises to be as conservative in economics as he is radical in politics and diplomacy...
Recreation First. The community itself is a mere infant. In 1956, Phoenix's Del E. Webb, builder and part owner of the New York Yankees, began studying retirement communities. Despite most advice to the contrary, he decided that retired people often feel uncomfortable around younger couples because their interests are so different; furthermore, they do not want children underfoot. They prefer organized activities to keep them busy, want sports facilities to be ready when they move...
...bloom is off the postwar housing boom, most builders see no cause for panic. "The demand will be steady, like food," says one builder. Population growth and simple replacement needs indicate a demand for at least 1,300,000 new homes a year until...