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...executives. They contain increasing numbers of wealthy retired individuals, and they are 98% white, 61% Protestant, 3% Jewish. They are Republican (62% for Nixon in 1968, 24% for Humphrey). Few in the Affluent Bedroom admit to feeling "really bored and stuck out here"; most believe that their fellow townsmen truly enjoy suburban living. The Affluent Bedroom comes closest to Lewis Mumford's description of the historic suburb: "A sort of green ghetto dedicated to the elite...
...publisher: "If we had our way, we'd build a fence around this town. We don't want your Mickey Mouse problems. We don't need them." The real "new isolationists" do not want to withdraw from foreign countries: the publisher and his like-minded fellow townsmen are, if anything, interventionists. But they do want to withdraw from New York; Lindsayland and the other big U.S. cities are more alarming now than the jungles of Indochina or the wiles of Europe. The world overseas represents almost an escape from America...
Twenty miles northwest of Augusta in hilly farm country, Mount Vernon is too poor to be a traditionally quaint New England town. At the start of the century, it had a flourishing sawmill, gristmill, tannery and barrel factory. By 1940, the industries were gone. Now the townsmen cut lumber or work in neighboring communities in shoe factories, mills or government offices. The average family income runs between $3,000 and $4,000 a year. "Downtown" is a cluster of frame buildings, including the abandoned log mill, a general store and a pizza joint. It was in Mount Vernon, where...
...anniversary visit last week, TIME Correspondent John Blashill discovered that the village is becoming resigned to failure. But eyes flash when townsmen talk about the U.S. Air Force. They concede that the U.S., which promised to leave Palomares "just the way we found it," was generous with emergency payments for food, clothing and shelter. When 644 damage claims were later filed, they add, the Air Force and the Spanish government turned from Midas into pinchpenny...
Inching behind a snowplow in his beige Peugeot, French Premier Georges Pompidou trekked manfully through the hills of his native Auvergne, waving at the few hardy souls on the roads. Warmed by a coal heater, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet stood on a sawdust floor in Murat and told 300 townsmen that the government had forgotten them. Socialist Leader François Mitterrand was in Ussel, holding forth on the evils of "caste and privilege" in a hall that stank of sweat and Gauloise Bleue cigarettes. And at Aubervilliers, Communist Waldeck Rochet denounced "social demagoguery" in a suitably dingy gymnasium...