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Much of the problem lies in the character of the sprawling megalopolis (454.9 sq. mi.), whose inhabitants commute by car-a habit not conducive to newspaper reading. Within Los Angeles County limits are 73 separate municipalities-many of them, e.g., Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, embedded inside the city of...
West Side Story is a resetting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the race-riotous slums of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Romeo (Richard Beymer) is a white boy, idol of a teen tong called The Jets. Juliet (Natalie Wood) is a Puerto Rican girl whose brother...
Biggest of the problems that such people face is Suburbia's growing morass of overlapping services and functions, especially in counties that have experienced a big building rush. In the 17 towns that comprise Denver's four-county suburban area, for example, there are 27 school districts, 35...
One January day (clear in Manhattan, foggy in Los Angeles) a group of TIME editors, writers and reporters made the first plans for the cover story that appears in this issue. The reporting assignment was handed to Frank McCulloch, who was about to take over as chief of TIME'...
Satellites & Earaches. The "city," essentially, is no more; its 455-sq.-mi. area with 2,000,000 inhabitants is only a mother country, and its satellites sprawl around its perimeter for 4,853 sq. mi.-more than three times the size of Rhode Island-overreaching Los Angeles County, enveloping adjacent...