Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer of this week's cover story on Suburbia is about as expert as a man can be on the subject of the suburban wife: he is married to one. TIME Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, his wife Elizabeth and their two children-David. 9. and Daniel 4-live in a well-mortgaged, brick and shingle split-level in the seven-year-old Lakeville Estates development in East Meadow, L.I., 30 miles east of Manhattan. There. Mrs. Birnbaum who holds an M.A. from the Eastman School of Music, and was once a member of the music faculty at Baylor University...
Casual clothes got their first big boost at resorts and spread to suburbia, where housewives needed a single, rough-and-ready costume for the range of home chores, from driving the kids to school to cooking in the backyard. Now leisure dress has invaded the city: even in Manhattan, where women in shorts used to draw unfavorable stares, Bermudas and slacks are now commonplace in neighborhood shops and parks. In the past few years, sales of casual clothes have risen steadily; sales of slacks, sportswear's hottest item, have doubled in four years...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Barbara Bel Geddes threads her way among assorted corpses in a story that mixes 20th century suburbia with 17th century witchcraft...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Still trying to live up to its boast, "TV's Finest Hour" presents a Hitchcock slant on unsavory antics in suburbia...
...generally and easily available to the vast majority of U.S. youngsters, Garn notes. As calories have become more accessible and irresistible, the chances to work them off in healthy exercise have diminished. "In many of our great cities," he writes, "safe opportunities for strenuous play now scarcely exist . . . As suburbia expands . . . the car pool and the school bus reduce the energy expenditure, and the ranch house no longer provides calorie-expending stairs to climb...