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AMERICAN GIRLS GETTING TALLER
Hire’s a “tall tale" from the Beautiful Caverns of Luray, Virginia. Added headroom is now being excavated to accommodate a rising breed of long-stemmed American Beauties. New construction within the spectacular underground vistas of Iairav will lower the level of tour walks and eliminate stairways for greater ease and safety. The costly construction, through solid rock, is needed because of the phenomenal growth pattern of today's traveling Americans . . . including girls.
Ita< k in I9IIH, American college girls averaged only fivefeet-two in height. But today's college girl, .based on a Department of Agriculture Research Service, averages five-feet-five— three inches taller. In the future—the long and short will navigate the Caverns of lairuy in comfort.
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