Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liquidation. In New Castle, Pa., police, looking for a parking meter that someone had uprooted, found it at the bottom of the Shenango River...
...Levittown, Pa...
Flourtown, Pa...
...many coal-mining towns are pure-aired health resorts, but Carbondale, Pa., 15 miles northeast of Scranton, has a special problem. Deep under the streets of a good-sized part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them...
BARBARA SREER, by Stephen Birmingham (371 pp.; Little, Brown; $4.50), is based on a standard Marquand gambit-you can go home again, and again, and again. As she sees herself, Barbara is a yacht-club girl in a rowboat basin. Locustville, Pa. is an industrial town, and her husband Carson is an organization nomad in a Brooks Brothers shirt. When Carson heads for London on one of his periodic sales junkets, Barbara deposits their two little boys with the maid and flies off like a homing pigeon to her dear old home in gracious, spacious Burketown, Conn...