Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most buyers want more space and amenities, and they are buying a lot more house than in previous years. In 1950 the typical new house was only 894 sq. ft. in area, usually with two bedrooms, one bath, no garage and few built-in appliances. By 1971 the median dwelling had grown to 1,375 sq. ft. and last year to 1,590 sq. ft. Almost half of today's new homes have central air conditioning (up from little more than one-third in 1971), and two-thirds have two or more bathrooms (up from one-half in 1971). Says...
...team whose name is still strange to many Americans, but one that should become increasingly familiar: the Cosmos, newly crowned champions of the North American Soccer League. And above all it was for their star, Pelé, the man who more than anyone else has, in the space of a single season, turned soccer into a major sport...
...cutthroat business. The total number of dailies in the U.S., currently 1,762, is virtually the same as three decades ago. With many newspapers already devoting from one-quarter to one-half of their news space to syndicated features, more and more syndicates are fighting harder and harder over the same territory. It is a giant zero-sum game. "If somebody wins, somebody loses," explains Dennis R. Allen, president of the (Des Moines) Register and Tribune Syndicate. "If a newspaper adds eight new comics, it cancels eight others. It's highly, highly competitive...
This summer, when Tufts officials realized that they had more students than space to put them, they decided to house the overflow in the Sheraton Commander and run a shuttle bus between the hotel and the Tufts campus on the Medford-Somerville line...
...cancer; in Waterbury, Conn. Gabo studied medicine and engineering in pre-World War I Germany while, at the same time, painting and sculpting. In 1920 he wrote Realistic Manifesto, which outlined the principles he was to espouse, rejecting sculpture as mass and calling for the use of space as a structural part of the object. After working in England (1935-46), Gabo moved to the U. S. and in 1952 became an American citizen. He created a dazzling, airy body of work, fragile and coolly elegant. Twisting, swooping arcs made of glass or plastic, for example, were strung with wires...