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After such factors as the size of suburb, nearness to a central city, rate of growth and educational level were examined, four basic community types came into focus. A correspondent was then assigned to explore one example of each. "Our purpose was to map the suburbs as they exist today in three dimensions," said Senior Editor Jason McManus. Keith Johnson, who wrote the story from the material supplied by Harris, the correspondents and Reporter-Researcher Marguerite Michaels, found as he studied the returns that he too had "enjoyed the mythology, but I always wondered how accurate it really...
...suburb has long had a powerful hold on the American imagination. In the national mythology it is a place of status and security: it is the persistent dream of a green and pleasant oasis not too far from the office, a plot of ground that offers the calm of the country with all the advantages of the city within easy reach. The dream ranges from the manicured privacy of Long Island's "Gold Coast" to the die-stamped uniformity of California's Daly City, which inspired Malvina Reynolds' derisive song Little Boxes. Between those extremes hovers...
...reason the Harris results are at odds with the myth is that they are based on what the Census Bureau considers to be a suburb, which is, roughly, that part of a metropolitan area surrounding a central city with a population of 50,000 or more. That includes some unexpected territory. Nassau County on Long Island is obviously suburban, reaching only 20 miles from Manhattan at its farthest point. Most Americans would also consider California's Marin County to be a suburb: many of its residents commute across the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco from upper-bohemian Sausalito...
With the rank of lieutenant colonel, Cooper has now retired from the Air Force and is setting up an Institute for Aerobics Research in a suburb of Dallas. On an 8½-acre site, he will have half-mile and one-mile tracks and an Olympic-size swimming pool. Not yet ready to take patients, he is already swamped with applicants, many of them middle-aged men worried by the deadly statistics of heart-artery disease and premature deaths in the U.S. "I'm practicing preventive medicine," Cooper says. He believes that his measurements of heart action and oxygen...
Forget the Office. With more time for recreation, hobbies, their families and self-improvement, many employees find that the four-day week has altered their lifestyles. Says Harold Maclnnes, an advertising manager for Kyanize Paints of Everett, Mass., a suburb of Boston: "In two days, you can't forget the office. In three days you can, and come back refreshed." In Murfreesboro, Tenn., where the Samsonite Corp. plant went on a four-day week just after Thanksgiving, General Foreman Dick Baines says that the change "has given me time to be a real part of the family...