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...1970s will become the era of the young marrieds. They will provide a huge market for minimal-cost housing: mobile homes, or tiny town houses and apartments in the far-out suburbs. Builders estimate that construction of such units may have to double from present levels. "Young marrieds are avid consumers," notes Adman Victor Bloede, president of Manhattan's Benton & Bowles. "They buy everything." They also borrow heavily. In, particular, they will want appliances and furniture, pots and dishes, infants' wear and home entertainment items as diverse as Tia Maria and tape recorders...
...niece, Kathy Boudin, is still being sought in connection with the underground bomb factory in New York's Greenwich Village that blew up last year. But Stone insists that Kathy is "levelheaded." He opposes kidnaping. "Sooner or later," he writes in the current Bi-Weekly, "some far-out group in this country is going to try it. When they do, it's going to set back the whole peace movement, just as the Wisconsin bombing set back the student movement...
...brushcut mold. Upon joining the Boston Bruins three seasons ago, Derek ("Turk") Sanderson announced: "The square hockey world could use a change, and I'm the guy to change it." He grew a mustache, let his hair grow into a shaggy mop, spent $9,000 on a far-out wardrobe, and began mouthing off. N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell, he said, was a "stuffed shirt" for not letting him wear white skates. Famed old Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings was "the dirtiest player in the league." Named Rookie of the Year, Sanderson naturally hurried into print with...
...Listen, man, I got this really far-out project called Brewster McCloud, right? It was written, if you can dig it, by the guy who wrote Skidoo. [There are cries of "Oh my God" from elsewhere on the bench.] Just cool it a minute. It's a really weird little number, man. I mean, it's like about this guy who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome and builds a pair of wings cause he wants...
There are other far-out experiments. One group, living at Sandstone, a handsome complex of houses near Los Angeles, has varied in size from three to twelve adults, and currently consists of only five: three men and two women. Says Barbara Williamson, a member of what she calls the "intentional" family: "It's a smorgasbord. It's so much more exciting to have nine different dishes than just one." The group has had no children yet because it wants to stabilize its "marriage" first...