Word: urb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successfully reversed this desertion. Hartford's biggest retailer, G. Fox, added a $12 million annex to its store just across the street, and Korvette's decided to occupy a long-vacant store near by. The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., which had been planning to move to the sub urb of West Hartford, changed its mind and built a graceful, green-glass ship of a building, connected to the plaza by a bridge, that is the handsomest store that had just spent a million dollars on redecoration. But Wallace's plan was voted unanimously, and even though it is still...
Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling. Among correspondents who supplied material for the story are a number of old campers. Kenneth Froslid of the Chicago bureau, a camper since the age of five, originally proposed the cover after camping out on an 8,200-mile cross-country Volkswagen tour with his wife. He has since graduated to the amenities of an Apache Chief camping trailer. Bob Wood, who filed from...