Word: suburbias
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...house on Grindstone Hill, outside Weston, Conn., deep in suburbia, the phone rings. It could scarcely have chosen a less convenient moment. The call catches Charles Hayden in the tub, where he has just supplanted his wife; they are getting ready, on this late spring afternoon, for a drive to New York City. His wife, still not quite dry, hastily flinging a wrap around her, pads barefoot to the phone...
...agricultural tractors, have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
...slum that breeds thieves, spivs, prostitutes and all their prey. Then in flashbacks-some spliced subliminally into the narrative two or three frames at a time, others developed in excruciating detail-Lumet adroitly dramatizes the agony of memories. Sunning himself on a lawn in a bleak outpost of suburbia where he lives with relatives, Nazerman's mind melts back to an idyllic day in the old country with his wife and children. In a teeming subway, he suddenly sees the boxcar-prison where his son was trampled underfoot. In the pawnshop, when a Negro harlot strips to the waist...
Robert C. Weaver '29, administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, last night declared that integrally planned new communities will provide useful demonstrations of what can be done "in creating a new pattern for suburbia," but he warned that such communities "will not solve our problems of future suburban development...
Weaver noted that restrictions limiting government financial assistance in suburbia to communities which meet economic diversity, planning, and open occupancy requirements would begin to antsy many critics of existing suburbs. But, he declared, such legislation will not be enacted in the near future...