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...Essentially, Campland is a 42-acre parking lot that can accommodate 800 assorted trailers, mobile homes and just plain tents. For a fee that ranges from $4 to $6, depending on the size of lot, a family can pretend it is camping out while still enjoying the delights of suburbia. Television addicts can plug in their sets, Jacuzzi fans can return to the swirl, and if Mom forgot her hot pants back in San Berdoo, she can replace them at Campland's own boutique...
Since 1967, more than 30 major corporations have decided to flee Manhattan for the greener pastures of suburbia (TIME, April 26). The corporate exodus shows no sign of abating. Now General Electric, the fourth biggest U.S. industrial company, has called it quits, at least for most of its top executives and their staffs. The company will move 500 members of its 800-man headquarters staff-including the chairman, the president and many vice presidents-into a new office complex to be built on a 100-acre wooded site in Fairfield, Conn., 55 miles from the horrendous traffic congestion and frazzled...
Comedian Dick Gregory's sardonic commentary all too accurately sums up the prevailing cynicism concerning poverty programs. Critics from suburbia and the ghetto alike tend to view the war on poverty as a disaster area in which money filters down from the unwilling hands of taxpayers into the inefficient and sometimes greedy fingers of social agencies-stopping just short of the poor whom it is supposed to reach. Such skepticism may often be well founded, but must it be the rule...
...Well, suburbia killed the Bisons. For, while the fans would come on Sunday by bus to see Elbert "Golden Wheels" Dubenion and the Bills, a trip into the black section of the city at night kept my grandfather from taking me to any more games. First the Bisons lost their fans, and after playing before 100 fans for a season, they realized it would be cheaper to play on a park diamond. So, they lost their field and played on a Niagara Falls sandlot for two years. But 200 followers sitting in two bleacher sections along the foul lines were...
...second playlet Matthau is a case of acute satyriasis billed as Jesse Kiplinger, Famous Hollywood Producer. When his New York schedule frees him from 2 to 4 p.m., Jesse books overcoy Muriel (Barbara Harris). He had stolen her maidenhood 17 years earlier in suburbia; now he wants to return to the crime, if not the scene. Acting under an assumed mane, the red-wigged Matthau is a Narcissus whose self-love is contagious. But Muriel is immune until Jesse discovers the secret: big names. Dropping them like rose petals, he strews the path to the bedroom...Frank Sinatra...Paul Newman...