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...Thousand Oaks are being transformed into cities by the families that once only farmed them. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River. Humble Oil's Clear Lake City, which is on 23,000 acres of oil and gas-bearing grassland near Houston, shows promise of success after suffering some fumbles at the outset. Against...
...includes a private pool and candy-striped Jeep with every bungalow, are adding new space. All over town, from the Tequila a Go-Go to the Paradiso, night life is a throbbing pandemonium. But there is another side to Aca pulco that the gay, sunny travel posters ignore: the resort city is one of Mexico's worst centers of crime...
...transition to civilian life for cons with good records. It is the pet project of Swedish Prisons General Director Torsten Eriksson, who so far has every reason to expect success. This summer he sent ten prisoners off for three weeks of fishing, swimming and hiking in a small mountain resort. Everyone liked that so much that there was not one attempt to escape...
...Purdy's secret is speed. Allowing himself a maximum of two weeks for a nonfiction piece and only three days for a short story, he is currently working on 16 assignments. He makes from $40,000 to $50,000 a year. Less skillful practitioners resort to ruses. Before he gave up freelancing to become the assistant articles editor of the New York Times Magazine, Gerald Walker used to dream up devices that he called "How to succeed in freelance writing without really writing." He would interview some 20 children of celebrities, for example, and ask them to tell what...
...says that excessive swearing may be a "symptom of pre-schizophrenic personality disintegration." On the other, he regards the growing use of obscene language as "a rising index of spiritual freedom." But he can't quite tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally. As Dr. Hartogs prefers to put it in psychiatric jargon: "Even the crudest obscenities are sometimes circuitous in terms of the patient's true intent...