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...saving Vance Packard's A Nation of Strangers [Sept. 11] to read next June in hopes that it will ease the anxiety re sulting from my more than annual uprooting-eight moves in only seven years of marriage...
...Packard's indictment is detailed in A Nation of Strangers (David McKay; $7.95), the seventh of Packard's commentaries on the American way of life. If the wide appeal of his earlier volumes*-and of Carole King's song-is any indication, Strangers, published this week, may well be another bestseller...
Mobility is not new, and Packard did not discover it. The increasing industrialization of the U.S. has made moving easy, sometimes desirable and often necessary; thus the U.S. has long been a highly fluid society. That fact has been reported before, but only in bits and pieces. Packard is the first to fit the pieces together and assess their meaning...
...shifting population documented by Packard includes not only the obvious categories, such as military men and migrant workers, but also athletes, actors, long-distance bus and truck drivers, salesmen, construction workers and airline stewardesses. Blacks flee the inner cities, and whites flee blacks. People displaced by urban renewal or superhighways are forced to pull up stakes. So, very often, are executives transferred to distant cities; to many of its employees, IBM means "I've Been Moved." The aged migrate voluntarily, becoming "snowbirds" in the sunshine of Florida or California. The young leave home to escape their parents...
...Packard musters some extraordinary statistics...