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People already living in Petaluma were frightened rather than flattered. Applications for housing-construction permits doubled, then doubled again until they reached 2,000 a year. The smalltown character of the onetime egg capital of California was clearly in jeopardy, as were the low local property taxes. Rapid population growth would require a sharp increase in public services. Petaluma decided to fight back. It passed a new ordinance 18 months ago limiting new building permits to 500 a year. Other communities, eager to check growth, soon began adopting the Petaluma plan. But a group of California land developers had already...
Cambridge is a beautiful city--small enough to engender a smalltown atmosphere, and yet cosmopolitan enough to be rightly labeled the `Athens of America.' Cambridge has two mammoth universities, a number of small colleges and a thoroughly heterogenous population. The universities openly engage in classified research for the United States Government. It is logical to speculate that such research might just include the study of socio-psychological stress factors within a controlled environment. If one cares to spend most of a fortnight researching Harvard and M.I.T. real estate acquisitions within the City of Cambridge from the end of World...
...closed, interesting worlds to observe them acutely but not so far in that he made any special commitments to their inhabitants. His first great success had been 1934's Appointment in Samarra, a savage little study of how a few careless social gestures could destroy a pillar of smalltown, upper-middle-class WASP society. O'Hara knew that world well, but was not truly of it, being Irish and Catholic and the son of a man desperately insecure about his social footing. Later, when O'Hara turned to New York cafe society for the setting of Butterfield...
...admitted to recruiting his teams by kidnaping nine-year-olds and training them mercilessly until they came of competition age. One longs for the inspired insanity of such a notion during this slack and dreary comedy from Walt Disney studios. The idea here is that the coach of a smalltown college (John Amos) and his cretinous assistant (Tim Conway) stumble on a kind of peroxide Tarzan (Jan-Michael Vincent) and import him from Africa to bring athletic glory to the campus. The jokes are either raucously insipid or coyly racist (Africans and their quaint primitive ideas). Vincent seems very much...
With a population of 4,521, Payette, Idaho, is not exactly a throbbing metropolis. Yet that small agricultural center at the junction of the Payette and Snake rivers claims a badge of prosperity that is rare on the smalltown scene: regularly scheduled air service. Airline service to small towns has never been particularly good and, because of rising costs, it is now going the way of the trolley car, the cracker barrel and the general store. During the past five years, 77 small communities have been lopped from airline route structures. Today fewer than 150 Payette-size towns have scheduled...