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Boston, like other metropolitan areas in the United States, is caught in the spiral of an increasing tax rate. City residents move into the suburbs when the tax level becomes high. With income decreased by the exodus to suburbia, the city is forced to raise the level again in order to survive. Boston's taxes this year were $86 per $1000; next year the Municipal Research Bureau fears they will rise...
Warm Milk in Suburbia...
While Levittown, Long Island, suburbia's assembly-line Eden, celebrated its tenth birthday with fireworks, a 75-float parade, a midget football game and a performance of John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea, William Levitt, the ringtailed realtor who started it all, celebrated in his own way. For $1,750,000 he bought Belair, the 2,226-acre Maryland estate of the late William Woodward Jr. Purpose: more diapers and down payments in a new, 5,000-castle Levittown...
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. To reverse the trend in New Jersey, Forbes quickly discovered he needed both friends and an issue. To gain friends, he revved himself up into an Estes Kefauver of suburbia. He has climbed aboard Manhattan-bound ferryboats to shake hands, waded into lakes, scoured supermarkets, logged 6,000 miles on the converted milk truck. Along with this "Operation Doorbell" went "Operation Coffee Cup." By the hundreds, New Jersey women are sitting down to sip coffee from Forbes-decorated cups, dab at their lips with paper napkins imprinted with a Forbes family cooky recipe, listen to a tape...
Trapped on a swarming sector of Long Island where the backwash of Suburbia blurs into the edge of New York City, the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills is a green refuge from the crowded reality about it. Outside its high fences, the Long Island Rail Road rattles on its rounds and ordinary citizens endure the twice-daily war of commuting. Inside the club, the polite plunk of tennis balls, the whisper of sneakers on trim grass courts, the tinkle of ice in frost-beaded glasses still recall the long-gone white-flannel age of the courts. There, next...