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There are disadvantages too. Kahn, author of Domebook One, a basic dome dweller text, says: "Leaking is the dome's biggest drawback." He adds, however, that the problem is well on the way to solution: new caulking materials make it possible to seal chronically leaky seams. Another disadvantage is the free movement of air in the usually non-partitioned domes, which makes them noisy to live in-but easy to heat and cool. Ordinary furniture looks awkward in domes: built for rectangular homes, familiar chairs and tables do not fit against curving walls (dome dwellers have already designed furniture...
Cronkite describing points of interest at national parks and historic and military shrines. For the nervous city dweller, Leisure Data Inc. of Manhattan offers 20 minutes of the barks and snarls of an extremely annoyed German shepherd. The tape is designed to be turned on when a potential intruder nears. Time-Life Audio is preparing a new monthly "cassette magazine" called The Executive Voice, containing interviews with top business leaders, which will be available to subscribers for $80 a year...
...show. Three weeks before taping, Moss and his writers develop a script. Theoretically, their ideal viewer is poor and culturally deprived. Actually, the show catches the preschooler almost before his society does. Thus Sesame Street is as popular with the well-to-do as it is with the slum dweller. The kids may spark to the astonishing variety of material, but no sketch is without its preordained aim. A game is played under the academic umbrella of "Environment and Multiple Classification." Jet-plane and subway sound effects are listed under "Auditory Discrimination." Big Bird settling an argument is designated "Different...
...city dweller, chewing tobacco is that atavistic lump in a baseball player's cheek. In Raleigh, Miss. (pop. 614), site of the National Tobacco Spitting Contest, it is sport and sociology, an art actively practiced and boasted about. Champions are finally selected, as they should be, in a tournament that feeds the folklore for another year. TIME Correspondent Peter Range joined the aficionados for the 16th annual national spit-off and sent this report...
...Gaulle-Pompidou or Wilson-Jenkins austerity regimes in France and Britain respectively. instituted in response to inflated currency difficulties similar to those confronting this country plus a heavy dose of U.S. financial pressure, we discover levels of living roughly equivalent to the more successful U.S. ghetto dweller, with newer and more severe restrictions imminent for England under the present Tory regime...