Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competitor has fattened so fast largely because factory-built mobile homes escape such hobbles as archaic distribution of materials, costly on-site construction and building and zoning codes, all of which boost the cost of traditional housing. Today's typical mobile home, a 550-sq.-ft. unit with two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen-dinette and living room, sells fully furnished for $5,600 on such terms as 20% down and $70 a month for seven years...
Although half the industry's sales are to young married couples who need inexpensive shelter, mobile homes are growing bigger and more luxurious. Some carpeted, air-conditioned models command $16,000; 12-ft.-wide units now account for 21% of industry sales v. 7% last year. Many of the nation's 20,231 mobile-home parks match such amenities with pools and golf courses. "We were uneasy when we invited Jascha Heifetz to our trailer for a weekend visit," says Mrs. Raymond Kendall, wife of the dean of music at the University of Southern California...
Ulcickas, and Guzzi, who had earlier been picked along with Gene Skowronski for honorable mention on the AP All-East team, were also chosen by the wire service for the All-New England defensive unit...
...military is not a welcome partner in making national security decisions, Capt. James F. Calvert, USN, told Harvard's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit yesterday...
John Edgar Hoover, who almost singlehanded turned a subsidiary department of the U.S. Department of Justice into that internationally famous unit known as the FBI, has long been an enigma within an enigma. His critics have accused him of being a publicity seeker; yet Hoover as a rule will not even pose for a picture unless he has a prepublication look at the story that is to go with it, and in the 40 years that he has headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, his open-forum press conferences have been as scarce as hens' teeth...