Word: levittown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little League baseball, as psychiatrists have gravely observed, the eight-to twelve-year-old players can get so emotionally involved in the game that they end up as neurotic as any adult. But it never occurred to the team from Levittown, Pa. that baseball was anything but fun. Even when Levittown landed in the world series tournament in Williamsport, Pa., the kids still acted like kids. They swirled through free-for-alls, were sent to their rooms for pinching each other on the neck ("cow bite") or on the calf ("shark bite"). Said Little League Research Director Dr. Creighton Hale...
Winning with ease. Levittown made the finals last week and faced the sobering task of playing a Fort Worth team that was the most solemn and mature club in the tournament. The prospect gave Levittown a bundle of laughs. During batting practice. Third Baseman Julie Kalkstein grabbed the microphone of the public-address system and rattled off a series of gags about the efforts of his buddies...
When the game began, Levittown Pitch-Joey Marmello, a husky twelve-year-old (5 ft. 2 in., 117 Ibs.). proceeded to put on one of the greatest shows in Little League history. At bat. he hit a 225-ft. home run over the centerfield fence to drive in two runs. On the mound, he cut loose a big league fastball. By the end of the six-inning game. Joey had pitched a no-hitter, struck out 16 men and won the championship 5-0. Son of a former St. Louis Browns' farm hand, Joey has fanned...
...projects that thrust her full steam into community life. Beyond the home-centered dinner parties, Kaffeeklatsches and card parties, there is a directory-sized world of organizations devised for husbands as well as for wives (but it is the wife who keeps things organized). In New Jersey's Levittown, a projected 16,000-unit replica of the Long Island original, energetic suburbanites can sign up for at least 35 different organizations from the Volunteer Fire Department to the Great Books Club, and the Lords and Ladies Dance Club, not to mention the proliferating list of adult-education courses that...
...leave his trash barrels on the curb after they have been emptied?). In Long Island's staid, old Garden City, observes Hofstra Assistant Sociology Professor William Dobriner, "they don't care whether you believe in God, but you'd better cut your grass." In close-by Levittown, a poll of householders some time ago showed that the No. 1 topic on people's minds was the complaint that too many dogs were running unleashed on the lawns. Topic No. 2 was the threat of world Communism...