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Along Route 45 near rural Ramapo, N.Y., bounces a big green soda truck with a driver to make heads turn-big, bespectacled and full-bearded, beneath a round, wide-brimmed black hat. When he turns off the highway into a community of modern Cape Cod cottages, the friend who greets him on the roadside or waves from a window might be his double-big beard, black hat, black coat and all. This is how men look in New Square...
...Delay. For their part, the officials of Ramapo township feel that their patience has been severely tried by a wily band which, if it has its way, will import droves of bearded and babushkaed fanatics from Brooklyn and crowd them into jerry-built cottages. The current standoff: New Square has applied for incorporation as a village, which would give it control over its own zoning and building, but the township refuses to process the application and is suing the Hasidim for the deed to their streets and sewage system, which they are required by law to surrender (New Square refuses...
...observance of Jewish law. In the warm kitchens -each with two sinks and two stoves to keep dairy and meat foods strictly separate-the women work and wonder when the community will be free of its mundane bedevilments. It is not likely to be soon. Says Ramapo's town attorney, David Moses, himself a Jew: "We have done more for them than for others under similar circumstances. But frankly, I wish they'd go back to Brooklyn...
...NewJersey) set up an alternate office 60 to 75 miles outside New York City to feed, sleep and serve as GHQ for 100 top executives. Curtiss-Wright bought 84 square miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry has set up five regional committees to run the natural gas and oil industry in each area, and A.T.& T. arranged alternate toll-call routes and emergency generators. One company has even stocked its secret rendezvous with disaster pay checks printed on distinctive...
...debutante season. Like most resorts, it was built by a millionaire with a whim of iron. In the winter of 1885-86, Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters, it is now, by comparison, a social ghost town...