Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancestral property. Williams is polishing a comedy about the impact of a flood on a family in the Mississippi Delta; his working title is Kingdom of Earth. Meanwhile, the prolific Edward Albee will appear for the fourth straight season with an Americanization of Giles Cooper's Lon don suburban comedy, Everything in the Garden...
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. The split of a suburban couple (Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds) provokes some tart dialogue: "The uranium mine to her, the shaft...
...Israeli New City, under the direction of Mayor Teddy Kollek, 56. Unified water, telephone and bus services have been restored in Jerusalem, and the majority of Arab civil servants from the Old City have been given jobs in Kollek's municipal government. Thanks partly to the incorporation of suburban areas to the north and south, the city's population now stands at 280,000-against an estimated 70,000 at the time of Christ...
...attempting to show that states can play a vital role in uniting cities and suburbs. To take care of its growing urban population, the U.S., he says, must build the equivalent of "100 Clevelands" by the end of the century. Instead of merely placing ever wider suburban circles around present cities, he would build new cities. Not only would they take care of expanding population, they would also ease pressure on the ghettos. The ghettos grow by 500,000 Negroes a year, thanks to their high birth rate and migration from the South-which continues at much the same level...
That, plus the $5,880 that his British Open victory earned him, is enough to keep De Vicenzo comfortable in his suburban villa in Ranelagh, 15 miles south of Buenos Aires. "I work for the money I need," he says, "but other money I don't care much about. I am old, and I just like...