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...company went through a maze of government agencies to win permission to build 3,000 homes, it met furious opposition at every point; so far, the company has been able to build only ten homes and four condominiums. Though other developers were almost entirely responsible for despoiling the fragile terrain at Incline Village, a conservation-minded group of students derisively gave Boise Cascade an award as "polluter of the year...
SUBURBIA? The word alone is enough to unleash myths: a place afloat in behind-the-fridge gin, high on pot concealed in oregano jars, giddy with spouse swapping-and bored nonetheless. Perhaps an even greater fiction is that the terrain between city lines and countryside is uniform down to the last resident's outlook and lawn. In planning this week's cover story on the suburbs, TIME'S editors decided to challenge the myths head-on to discover how much diversity there really is among the nation's suburbs and suburbanites...
...census sees it, suburbia also includes such unlikely terrain as Cascade County, around Great Falls, Mont. -lightly populated towns in flat, rolling wheat country-and Minnehaha County, surrounding Sioux Falls, S. Dak., mainly onetime farming towns that have increasingly become dormitory communities. Northwestern University Sociologist Raymond Mack says a suburb has only two distinct characteristics: proximity to a big city and specific political boundaries, which result in local control of government. Most of the people whom Harris questioned do not even think of themselves as suburbanites. More often, they would say that they live in a small city, a town...
...flying in VNAF helicopters. Though General Tri had a South Vietnamese pilot for his fatal flight, most other Vietnamese generals now travel in U.S. Army choppers, fearful that VNAF pilots may lose their way. Fortnight ago a VNAF helicopter carrying U.S. newsmen got temporarily but totally lost over unfamiliar terrain in South Viet Nam. In another case, a VNAF pilot casually chalked map coordinates to his destination on the outside of his chopper windshield, only to find himself forced to try to read them backwards from the inside of his ship during flight...
...make it survive. The Harvard Dramatic Club's production starts at a low key, failing to generate enough tension for the first ten minutes or so, but gradually works its way up to a brilliant intensity. Michael Smith as Max comes on weak, as if feeling out the terrain, but grows into his part after a while, gradually beginning to talk to his son instead of to the audience. Likewise, John Gilpin, as the son, Lenny, warms up slowly, but finally works into character...