Word: metropolitanism
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...counter Chicago's boast of being the second largest U.S. city, California's boosters bragged in the '60s that Los Angeles County had more residents than Chicago's Cook County. Chicagoans windily replied that they had a more populous "consolidated metropolitan area," which they reckoned as stretching 54 miles along Lake Michigan, from Waukegan, Ill., to Hammond, Ind. Not so, said the Angelenos, who defined their "consolidated area" as including five contiguous counties of Southern California. Now, according to preliminary census figures, the argument seems to be over: Los Angeles may have gained 73,000 residents...
...union ranks 11 my life I've been antiunion. I always felt professionals could look after themselves. But with today's economic and social problems, organizing is the best way to protect what we have." So says Joe Williford, 43, a senior contract administrator with the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARIA). Williford became a union man this summer after MARIA asked its employees to surrender part of their scheduled cost-of-living raises because a delay in fare increases had led to a budget squeeze. Bus drivers and clerical workers, who are represented by the Amalgamated Transit...
...recently, however, has it become clear where that exodus has been heading. The nation long assumed that the cities' lost population was piling up mostly in the suburbs and urban fringes. Not so. In a marked reversal of U.S. migration patterns, nonmetropolitan areas have started growing faster than metropolitan ones...
...migration has surprised demographers, but it can hardly astonish anyone familiar with U.S. attitudes toward urban existence. Americans have always preferred smaller communities, and did so even during the years when the nation seemed bent on emptying its entire population into metropolitan clots. Surveys have consistently shown that a majority of the people, including almost 4 out of 10 big city dwellers, were partial to a life outside the metropolis. Some leaned to the suburbs and others to more rural vistas. But the biggest single dream remained the small town. Now, when more and more are moving to fulfill that...
...engrossing stories. A few members of this troupe gave a sampling of the art in 1978. Now a full company from the Peking Opera Theater is presenting the broad and impressive range of the repertory. Last week it began a ten-city, twelve-week tour in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house; it will go from there to Philadelphia Aug. 25, travel on to such places as Los Angeles and Chicago and end its run in Boston Nov. 2. The company is presenting eight separate productions, with no more than three in any one night. Trying to gauge the tastes...