Word: cityfolk
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...decline. Some towns are even booming, with high-tech industrial parks and bustling downtowns in which refurbished storefronts boast serious restaurants and community theaters, ubiquitous brew pubs and coffee bars. Inevitably, a cottage industry is springing up to service the newcomers. At least four recent books promise to teach cityfolk how to find the village of their dreams (Moving to Small Town America, Small Town Bound), and one entrepreneur has a company, the Greener Pastures Institute, that helps urbanites engineer the great escape...
...fact if crafty old Nabokov had not written the first and best motel tour in Lolita, one might think that cityfolk like Mrs. Roiphe should stay off the road and leave the driving to the sons and daughters of the wide-open spaces. Long Division is a disappointing book by a talented writer. What it lacks is convincing physical settings or incidents to sustain the mournful interior monologues of the trapped and finally boring heroine. The author is energetic enough. She offers accounts of breakdowns and highway fatigue, as well as side trips to the Hershey chocolate factory, a Cherokee...
...after on newly constructed cross-country superhighways. Construction of city expressways cleared away chunks of urban residential areas, made it easier for people to commute. And rising family incomes (up from an average $4,440 in 1950 to more than $6,500 in 1960) enabled more and more U.S. cityfolk to move out to the suburbs (TIME cover, June...
...amazing feature of the Agriculture Department's soil-bank program is its consistent tendency to build up farm surpluses instead of reduce them. Last week the newest example was sorghum, a flat leafed, long-stalked feed grain that means little to cityfolk. But it is a price-support gold mine to farmers, and a throbbing new headache to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson...
...dingy World War monument, look into the inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people and murmur that he was going to work for "full employment and equal opportunities"; only he could deliver a major farm speech in an industrial center (Janesville)-with only 150 (cityfolk) present. Somewhat symbolic, moreover, was the King Turkey Day in Worthington, Minn., which featured a parade of 150 live, gobbling turkeys and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who managed an apprehensive smile when the mayor plumped a nervous turkey into his hands. As the days wore on, Kefauver began to show...