Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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East by North. For a host of businessmen whose jobs give them a slightly longer tether and who have shipped their families off to resorts, summer is the time of the long-distance commute. Especially along the Eastern Seaboard from Washington to Boston, the trek to rejoin families for the weekend in resorts at Rehoboth Beach, Del., Cape Cod, the White Mountains or the coast of Maine is a grueling ordeal...
Broadway Producer Alexander Cohen, 46, loves a good bash. Once he staged a carnival in the heart of the theater district and invited half of the Eastern seaboard. "I figure," he says, "why take your wife to dinner when you can just as easily have 40 guests...
...planned community cannot be a model for megalopolis when it deliberately keeps its population density at 13 persons per acre. Wood and trees, they claim, are irrelevant media for the city of the future. And the attempt to preserve large tracts of hillside is unrealistic when the eastern seaboard of this country will be entirely covered with building in the next half century. "The philosophy of Reston is focused too much on the picturesque and the pedestrian," says one planner, "and it ignores the dynamic, rich, and pertinent part of our society--cars, industry, technology...
Alter and Murphy will get another chance at Sitzberger today in the high dive. This is Murphy's speciality. He won the high dive at the Eastern Seaboard Swimming Championships two weekends ago with a great comeback effort. Coach Bill Brooks is counting on another effort of the same caliber today...
...definite need for schools which offered preparation for college, public education not being adequate enough nor tutorial education uniform enough to meet the universities' requirements. For this reason (as well as to convert boys into moral men, fit for the best banking houses and clubs of the Eastern Seaboard) the Endicott Peabodys of the world opened up their schools in forgotten corners of New England. There they provided a needed educational service for several generations...