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Overalls to Ban-the-Bomb. The song was written in the front seat of an automobile, while Songwriter Malvina Reynolds was ticktacktooling along down San Francisco's Skyline Boulevard. At the moment of inspiration, tract houses were pressing in on the road from all sides. Two hours later, she had finished music and lyrics and was performing the song before an audience that liked it so much they laughed all the way back to their boxes...
...city, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, reeks of opulence: a two-car family might as well be on relief. But the shape of the place and the nature of its glamour have changed since the golden years, when Hollywood's pioneer stars came to the five-square-mile tract of beanfields, carved castles out of the surrounding canyons, and turned a wasteland into myth, when...
...Morrow County people have made most of their gains from the boom by leasing their land for drilling. Oil speculators have wildly bid up prices; a three-month lease for a 61-acre tract near already-producing wells recently skyrocketed from $1 to $30,000 in a single day's trading, and the value of another tract tripled from $25,000 to $75,000 in three days. Since the big oil production started only recently, royalty income-a standard 36.50 per barrel-is just beginning to build up. Nonetheless, the oil boom has stepped up the county...
Among the things those pieces of paper have bought is a big 75-year-old house on an 80-acre tract in Manhasset, L.I. Known as Kiluna Farm, it is a house that won't quit, rambling up, down and on the bias; it looks like ten shingle farmhouses delivered all at once by airdrop. "The floors are sagging, but it's comfortable," says Mrs. Paley. The walls are under pressure too. They hold up the massive frames that surround an impressive private art collection...
...cause of lung cancer is still unknown, but there is clinical evidence linking cancer with foreign matter in the respiratory system. Cilia are thin hairs that prevent such particles from lodging in the tract. The charcoal granules in the compartmentalised Lark filter adsorb such gases as hydrogen, cyanide, formaldehyde, acrolein, and ammonia, which interfere with this process...