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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ernandes, who has made a career of offering himself as his country's fastest-moving journalistic target, had been tipped off. He had already called a hasty press conference and told fellow newsmen the army was after him. "There is no arrest warrant," he told them. "The War Minister has no power to arrest me because I am not a military man." He was hauled off to a barracks, anyway, and placed under guard - out of sight, sound and print for six days...
...Allergies. The fastest growth is in the U.S. home, where one family in six now has some air conditioning. Central air conditioning will go into 375,000 homes this year, 20% more than in 1962. Half of all the buyers are families earning less than $10,000 a year. Though central air conditioning costs about $1,300 v. $140 to $290 for bedroom units, the industry has convinced many that the central units last longer, reduce both allergies and housework by filtering out pollen and dust. In office buildings, the trend is toward the central "zonal" unit controlled separately...
Foreign Interest. Other markets are also fast expanding. Torrid countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are impressed by the way such hot U.S. cities as Phoenix and Houston (which claims to be the fastest-growing big city in the U.S.) have grown faster by cooling artificially. Exports of air-conditioning equipment will hit $100 million this year. At home, 14% of all new car buyers will spend from $232 to $538 apiece on air conditioners for their autos. Two-thirds of the '63 Cadillacs are air-conditioned, and 12% of all Chevies and Galaxies. Even the churches...
...Yahoo!" the wing-mustached old saddle tramp yelled, reining up in the startled dude resort of Warbag, Colo. "I'm Scandalous John McCanless, and I've got the prettiest daughter, the fastest horse, and the ugliest partner in the district, and I'm a ring-tailed screamer lookin' for a fight...
...girl shouts out: "Sing something about integration." Seeger has done so before a crowd of 45,000 at the Boston Arts Festival; and the Peter, Paul and Mary recording of Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind (TIME, May 31) is, according to Warner Bros. Records, the fastest selling single the company has ever cut. Blowin' is young Dylan at his lyrically honest best. It sounds as country-airy as Turkey in the Straw, but it has a cutting edge...