Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every direction. Typical of the mood was the budget year of Mrs. Flora Binder, a Sherman Oaks, Calif., housewife; in her household, it seemed a good year to put on a new roof, to apply a new coat of paint to the house, to buy a garbage-disposal unit, to refurnish the living room and to replace the TV set with a newer model. Consumers have become so casual about outlays that used to call for a family council that Miss Sadie Zlotkin, a temporarily unemployed coat stitcher in West Los Angeles, when asked if she had made any major...
...above the Biblical old town sits a new Nazareth, settled by 8,000 Jews who take their economic lessons from the Book of Progress. The new town boasts a textile mill, chocolate-processing plant, 750-seat movie theater and 48-store shopping center. Being built is an 80-unit housing development whose windows overlook Mount Tabor, the site of Christ's Transfiguration, and nearby Cana, the scene of his first miracle. The new Nazareth is the work of Rassco, a broad-ranging corporation that has become Israel's largest private employer...
...play them back immediately or at any future time as desired. The machine can be halted during commercials, or they can be snipped out later. The neatest part of the trick is the price: under $300. The least expensive "home" TV recorder previously available is an Ampex portable unit that turns out tapes of broadcast quality but costs...
...fact that half of the family's 59 weddings in the 19th century twined Rothschild men (and money) with Rothschild women. Guy entered the bank after studying law, then got called off to war. He was one of only three out of 26 officers in his mechanized cavalry unit who survived to be evacuated from Dunkirk; he went right back to France, was captured by the Germans but later escaped...
...enabled some Negroes to move to suburbs and outer parts of the city, where they otherwise could not have lived. And a law passed by the legislature last spring extended coverage of the Fair Housing Act to all dwellings except two-family houses in which the owner occupies one unit. But if the MCAD is to ensure an open housing market, it needs several additional powers enumerated in the Committee's report...