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...instant homes were the first of 200 being built in Chicago ghetto neighborhoods by National Homes and by Guerdon Industries. Equipped with factory-installed kitchen appliances, one-piece glass-fiber bathrooms and even air conditioning, they sell for only $14,500. In high-cost Chicago, similar-sized homes built by time-consuming conventional methods would ordinarily carry price tags of about $25,000. Thanks to such easy terms as $350 down and monthly mortgage payments of $125, National's module homes will reach families with incomes as low as $6,500 a year...
...against it. But I have a feeling that the old Humphrey is still there and we may see it. Sometimes, though, you get the impression from him that God is in heaven and all's right with the world. Nixon projects an image of more toughness, more fiber...
Krock laments the deterioration of the country's moral and political fiber, the inflation that destroys savings, the pressures toward "total integration" of blacks and whites, the introduction (by Kennedy and Johnson) of a "welfare state subsidized from Washington." He considers it an inexcusable sin that Kennedy and Johnson committed the U.S. to a land war in Asia. Above all, Krock bemoans the "transmutation" of U.S. democracy into a "judicial autocracy" in which the Supreme Court has assumed "overlordship of the government and all the people to fit the political philosophy of the current majority...
That unsolicited testimonial comes from Rhodesia's retired hangman, Edward ("The Dropper") Milton, and it is in praise of the fiber extracted from a cactus-like plant that grows mostly in Africa and Latin America. Not everyone, however, feels the same affection for sisal. Though it is still used in rope, twine, potato sacks and carpets, sisal is being steadily replaced by nylon and other synthetics. Its last bastion is agricultural twine, which now accounts for 75% of world sisal production...
...flash of recognition as Daltrey begins the proceedings by tearing at the microphone wire till it snaps. Townshend starts pounding the floor with his guitar--plays a little on it--then crashes it into the nearest amplifier again and again hitting the sides and the delicate loudspeaker fiber...