Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Irene Dailey stars in Megan Terry's drama Home, which is an elevator-size room where nine people live. They were born there, and will be forced to spend their lives there because of overpopulation in a gloomy futuristic world...
...freshman boat was humiliated by Leander. And in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup, Henley's premier event, the Quaker varsity found that there is not one crew that it cannot beat, but at least two. Einheit Dresden, a crack East German crew, practiced entirely on their home rivers in preparation for Henley...
...particularly worried about the entry of U.S. firms, whose massive capital, modern sales promotion and advertising could upset the harmony and order that are so much a part of the Japanese way of life. Foreign firms might also challenge the cozy arrangements under which Japanese businesses divide up their home markets. As a result, the Japanese have erected a bewildering maze of restrictive regulations. Foreign-owned firms can make wire but not cable, cameras but not lenses, watches or clocks but not both. Imports of 120 items, including such U.S. specialties as computers and leather goods, are either banned...
Almost inevitably, the name "mobile home" conjures up visions of a trailer hitched to a car and constantly on the move. Today's mobile homes are nothing of the sort. They rate their name only because they are trucked to special parks, where they are placed on concrete platforms and usually stay in place permanently. Put together by semiskilled workers on the assembly line, the mobiles have been largely unaffected by the soaring costs of conventional construction. Within the past ten years, they have become by far the No. 1 source of low-cost housing in the U.S., accounting...
...Living in a mobile home can be surprisingly comfortable. Rooms are airy, and only the corridors are cramped. Skyline homes come furnished with chairs, couches, beds, carpeting, and even pictures on the plywood interior walls. A 60-ft. by 12-ft. model, which usually includes a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and bath, can cost as little as $4,000, though most are somewhat more. Two units, bolted together on the site to make a 60-ft. by 24-ft., three-bedroom home, usually go for $10,000 to $15,000. Sales are principally to retired people, bachelors and newlyweds...