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Casual clothes got their first big boost at resorts and spread to suburbia, where housewives needed a single, rough-and-ready costume for the range of home chores, from driving the kids to school to cooking in the backyard. Now leisure dress has invaded the city: even in Manhattan, where women in shorts used to draw unfavorable stares, Bermudas and slacks are now commonplace in neighborhood shops and parks. In the past few years, sales of casual clothes have risen steadily; sales of slacks, sportswear's hottest item, have doubled in four years...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Barbara Bel Geddes threads her way among assorted corpses in a story that mixes 20th century suburbia with 17th century witchcraft...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Still trying to live up to its boast, "TV's Finest Hour" presents a Hitchcock slant on unsavory antics in suburbia...
...generally and easily available to the vast majority of U.S. youngsters, Garn notes. As calories have become more accessible and irresistible, the chances to work them off in healthy exercise have diminished. "In many of our great cities," he writes, "safe opportunities for strenuous play now scarcely exist . . . As suburbia expands . . . the car pool and the school bus reduce the energy expenditure, and the ranch house no longer provides calorie-expending stairs to climb...
POWER used the money to acquire small independents that could not keep up to the growing demands of burgeoning suburbia, which the Bell System had to forgo for antitrust reasons. He also set out to fill what he considered General's two biggest needs: manufacturing and research facilities similar to Bell's. In 1955 he bought Theodore Gary & Co., a large Midwestern independent that owned Automatic Electric Co., a major supplier of telephone equipment. General Telephone thus became not only its own equipment supplier, but a supplier for 4,000 independents to which Bell did not sell...