Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather a Factor...
...Southwest of Minneapolis, 72 stores opened their doors at $20 million Southdale, first U.S. shopping center to be completely enclosed (largely under glass) and weather-controlled...
Despite rapid advances in shopping-center design and location, says Rouse, they are still in their infancy. Ultimately, he predicts, the big retail centers will all be weather-controlled and glass-enclosed, allowing store owners to dispense with display windows and open their counters, bazaar-fashion, to passersby. Says Rouse, who is also one of the leading urban redevelopment authorities in the U.S.: "The well-planned, well-managed shopping center is more than simply a new plan for retail expansion. It represents a massive reorganization of the urban community...
...very well frown on the spectacle part of football, the athletic directors are very concerned about the size of the crowd each Saturday afternoon. The heavy rains last fall cut quite deeply into the pockets of certain schools, and this year, all the staffs are praying for good weather. What is needed to solve this dilemma is an endowment for each school to absorb the costs of the athletic program, so that success need not be measured in ticket sales...
Climbing Classics. The boom has spread to all types of records, even rolled through the hot weather when sales usually slump. In 26 weeks this year, Columbia's album of the score from Broadway's My Fair Lady (TIME, June 25) sold more than 653,000 copies, about half as many as the alltime champion, Columbia's South Pacific, has sold since 1949. Also climbing high in the sale of classical recordings, traditionally 25% of the market, and specialty albums, e.g., sports, plays, literary readings, politics. Last month ABC-Paramount brought out a collection of President Eisenhower...