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...mushroomed after World War II. Yet in Bismarck's time, only a small percentage of the population lived to 65; life expectancy at birth was about 37 years. Today's advances in health and medicine have produced a virtual army of robust, over-65 unemployed. Future medical breakthroughs will swell these ranks even more...
...SWELL JUST SWELL. Seven thousand dollars a year, and what do you get? Cold cereal in the morning (and don't forget the additives) served in plastic bowls, three bean salad, and, beginning last year, Feedback. And what, you rightfully ask, is Feedback? It would. I suppose, be too facile to simply answer, "Just what the name implies." It seems that the Food Services were recently bequeathed several million reams of top-quality 100 per cent rag content paper and have hired both a dead codfish and retired songstress Hildegard Knish (pronounced K'nish) to write their publicity releases. (Just...
Social trends also swell demand. What some builders call the "divorce market" is creating a need for two dwellings where one sufficed before. Single women a few years ago almost never bought housing property; today they are buying as many as 30% of the apartments in some Washington, D.C.-area condominiums and quite a few private houses as well. Unmarried couples?even homosexual pairs?are seeking houses or apartments. Says Mike Brenneman, a Washington real estate man: "Such cases were rare five years ago, but today they represent an important part of the market...
...answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin McLeod of The Mary Tyler Moore Show steers a cruise ship down the California coast...
Coover's 534-page opus hangs-and strangles-on a premise that might have sustained a passable college skit. Uncle Sam and the Phantom (i.e., Communism) are engaged in a life-and-death struggle for control of the world. Sam was doing swell at the end of World War II, but it is now 1953, and the Phantom possesses, among other things, mainland China and the atomic bomb. The Rosenbergs, tried and found guilty of helping the enemy get the bomb, must be exorcised as spectacularly as possible so that the light from their electrocution can combat the Phantom...