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Metal Castles. Last year Americans bought about 590,000 mobile homes, double the number four years ago. More significant, many of the homes are not-so-portable palaces with three bedrooms, cedar shingles, wood-burning fireplaces and central air conditioning. Ironically, says Carlsberg, mobile-home owners actually move less often than apartment dwellers. Many have their sheet-metal castles trucked to a homesite, lowered onto a foundation and never again moved. The average purchase price of the mobile homes in Carlsberg's parks is $14,000; at The Colony most homes will cost around...
Ozark has managed at such stops as Wichita Falls, Cedar Rapids, Macon, St. Paul, Omaha and Spokane. A first baseman, he never advanced beyond Triple A as a player...
...good their own ideas for public TV, however. Although decentralization would give greater attention to local concerns and local talents, it is far from certain that this attractive concept can be made to work. Various experiments with local programming in the early '60s were notably disappointing. Viewers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are as accustomed as viewers in Manhattan to glossy, big-budget shows from the networks. They are not likely to tune in to less professional shows on the public channel, even if they do come from their area...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
Died. Gene Farmer, 52, a senior editor of LIFE who went from the Ozark hills into the presence of prime ministers; of a heart attack; in Lexington. Mass. After earning a journalism degree at Northwestern University, Farmer joined the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette, where he soon became city editor. During his 27 years with LIFE, he moved through a succession of key assignments including sports editor, London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger...