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 Posted: Sat 16:46, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: Suburbanites still go to public places to cool off |
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Graham wonders if the devil didn't send a heat wave to lower the attendance at his six-week Madison Square Garden crusade.In the more affluent precincts of suburbia, it is swimming pool season, and more pools are bing built than anybody ever though possible. A year ago there were fifty-seven thousand of them in private homes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and by the end of the coming summer, there will be more than eighty thousand. Chester Slawy, the president of Suburban Pools Inc., can't get over it. "One pool in a virgin neighborhood," he boasts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "will sire five more." In Atlanta, developer Kirby Smith doesn't mind making a prediction: "The swimming pool will be just as commonplace as the bathtub ten years from now."One reason for Smith's optimism is that, for most people in the middle class, the air conditioner is almost as much of a luxury as the swimming pool. Fewer than 10 percent of all homes have one. Suburbanites still go to public places to cool off: theaters,
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