Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Builder. One reason for all the poverty is that without industrial plants and offices, most suburbs cannot begin to collect enough property taxes. Officials estimate that behind each pupil there should be taxable property assessed at at least $20,000, but in some of the towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property that had never...
...Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...
...commuter revolt against McGinnis' decision to charge $5.50 a month for parking privileges at most New Haven suburban stations (TIME, July 4) had him on the run. At first, when commuters objected, President McGinnis snapped angrily that he was not running "the Ford Foundation," and added: "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks, people act as though I've torn up the tracks." Last week he realized that such cracks were "a public-relations blunder." He postponed indefinitely the Norwalk parking fee, scheduled a series of meetings to mollify the New Haven's commuters...
...Ellises disregarded the warning, adjusted their lives to their new responsibilities ("I can't tell you how nice it is," Mrs. Ellis told a friend, "not to be able to go out except on Saturday nights like other parents"), gave the child solicitous attention in their comfortable suburban home. When the courts ruled against their adoption petition in 1953 and ordered Hildy returned to her mother, Hildy knew no other parents than the Ellises...
This is a first novel from the familiar outskirts of suburban discontent where the personalities are sometimes as split-level as the houses. Novelist Sloan Wilson, 35, English instructor at the University of Buffalo, is a small mirror of J. P. Marquand and he has written a kind of Sincerely, Willis Wayde in reverse. His hero is a thirtyish young man who rather naively decides that the only way he can achieve inner peace and fiscal happiness is by selling his soul to a large Manhattan corporation, and starts to do so only to find that...