Word: suburbias
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...have run down much of their material within the confines of the city. A revamped Sunday magazine, New York, keeps on top of the city's fast-changing fads and fashions; one recent article gave city housewives much the best of it in comparison with their sisters in suburbia. Most impressive of all, for the past eight weeks the Trib has been running an incisive daily series on New York's brutal and burgeoning big-city problems...
...Brighter Breed. Straus has guided the store through a new era of change and crisis in retailing. The rise of discounters, the flight of customers to suburbia and the thickening traffic snarls have hurt all downtown stores, but they particularly challenged Macy's aging Herald Square store. The store was never the fanciest bazaar in Manhattan, and it has also become outmoded: less than 50% of its area can be devoted to selling space v. 75% in newer stores. Its sales, while huge, have barely changed in ten years. The store rings up a quarter of the Macy chain...
Arthur Miller in a feverish burst of activity finishes his new play, The Death of Suburbia. "A searching analysis of the problem of conformity in America, this dramatic work returns the theater to greatness," exults Howard Taubman of the TIMES. "Miller is the new Vance Packard...
...snow tires, so far constitute less than 1% of all replacement tire sales, and are expected to remain in the limited "premium"-or high-priced-market for years. But the prospects for conventional snow tires seem unlimited, despite the fact that they are a regional and seasonal accessory. In suburbia, they have become as necessary as the second car or the power lawn mower. Many communities are so sold on their performance that they levy fines on any motorist who gets stuck in snow, blocks traffic, and is found to have no snow tires-or tire chains, which the success...
...early 20s, she herself is, by what seems at the time her own choice, the wife of a standard-model civil servant and the mother of a conventional child. Although she has "views"-she disbelieves vaguely in the color bar-she is accepted placidly by colonial suburbia. Then she discovers that she feels as if she were going mad. Older wives smile kindly and say, Yes, that's right, everyone feels that...