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I r xkxt week is average, aotne 20,000 American
families will buy house. Guiding them in making
this most important single purchase of their lives is a
minion of the Housing Research Foundation of the
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Tex.
' A nonprofit organization aimed at improving our
living standards, the foundation works with architects
and builders throughout the country to foster better
homo construction. Its Homo Buyer's Handbook,
which is based on this work, offers advice on things
to consider before you sign on the dotted line Hero
are some of the foundation's suggestions:
1.
The answer probably is "no", if you are recently
married, have little furniture, are considering em
ployment elsewhere, or are the parents of grown and
married children, for moat families, however, owning
a homo is satisfactory and desirable. You may not
save money in the long run, but a house gives you
pride of ownership phis a secure sense of belonging.
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The advertising section of your local newspaper is -one
of the best places to start Your friends also may
give you leads. Most important of all, keep your eyes
open as you drive around, but first call a family con
feronce on your requirements to guide you in your
choice. When you go house hunting, be sure to take
pencil, paper, and a pocket compassyou'll want to
preserve information on room and closet size, and
the direction in which rooms face. .
In an older housr, youH probably get quite an in
vestment in trees, lawn, and plants.-But you may
also get considerable trouble. For one thing, you'll
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SUV STAai 1. PtOWST . . . nerve responses gradually tuned out of your brain ,
SUtP STAM 3. UOHT , . . skin temperature lower . . . heart beat slower .
11-YEAR RESEARCH EXPLORES
THE FOUR STAGES OF SLEEP
POt 11 YUkS, people like yon
went to sleep fat laboratory sleep
rooms. Young people. Old people.
Single-bed sleeper. Married
couples in double beds.
While they slept, sensitive elec
tronic equipment recorded their
brain waves, heart beats, muscu
lar tension, skin temperatures.
As a result, man's knowledge of sleep has been vastly
increased. Ia this extensive live research, leading scien
tists, doctors, physiologists and technicians were able to
fully explore and measure the 4 stages of sleep. Their
scientific charts show: -
. IN UIH STA6I 1, the drowsy stage, your body and
mind have begun to relax. Nerve responses are gradually
tuned out of your brain.
SUSP STAM 1 sees relaxation increase. Senses become
more dulled. Skin temperature is lower. You have reached
light tlttp.
SUSP STAM S reveals lest muscular tension, lower
blood pressure. This is moderately ittp sleep very im
portant because mind and body are getting the recupera
tive rest thafs so urgently seeded.
SUB STAM 4 sees brain activity at a minimum, the
heart beat slowed down, the skin cooler. This is the most
' precious sleep of all-deep sound sleep.
gcieaci bat aWs-ered hew yea sleep, and scieace can
show yoa how to get better sleep, too, simply by the right
choke of mattress.
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During this 11-year study, without the sleepers' knowl
edge, an the leading types of mattresses were rotated
through the sleep rooms,
. Finally when all the findings oa all the sleepers were
, put together, a composite box score showed that one make
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