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Whyte discussed a congressional bill which he helped draft, the Volunteer Employee Ownership Act. The bill, if approved, will provide the Economic Development Agency (EDA) with $1 million a year to furnish technical and financial assistance to employees, and to study different forms of employee-owned factories...
Although princely pieces still command princely sums, the days when royal emissaries vied for a queen's collection of Leonardos in hushed auction rooms are gone. Today's collectors are apt to be middle-class?and many buy on the installment plan. Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary apartments...
...Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, and Block Island, R.I., and plans a 2,000-kw. model for Boone. N.C. The Federal Government wind-energy budget has ballooned to $38 million (a few privately owned turbines already serve remote mountain and island locations). Government experts estimate optimistically that wind power will furnish at least 3% of the nation's electricity by the year...
LIKE SHERMAN IN GEORGIA, the trend in watery luxuries for the home--water beds, Water Pics, and vibrating shower heads--marches relentlessly back to the sea. Gone are the days when a lawn sprinkler and a fish bowl sufficed to adequately furnish a home with aquatic appliances. In recent months advertisements for a $1200 bathtub have been catching the eye of readers of national magazines. California--birthplace of car customizing, the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Jerry Brown--now offers what may prove to be the new wave of America's vassergeist: California Hot Tubbing...
...Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak havoc on this self-styled Brown Buffalo. While the article makes precious little sense, it does at least furnish an appreciated respite from the self-congratulation filling most of the other pages in the issue...