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...rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than the central city, and poor families around Los Angeles outnumbered those in the city's heart. With an astonishing 40% of the nation's poor...
...kidnaped girl belongs to one of Florida's wealthiest families. Her father Robert and his brothers own and run the $65 million Deltona Corp., one of the biggest home-building companies in the U.S. The three brothers are friends of Florida's Senator George Smathers and of President-elect Richard Nixon, and they own the Key Biscayne Hotel where Nixon has often stayed...
...interesting, too, that Massachusetts' wealthiest Corporation, easily able to afford payment on its own renovations, has accepted this money rather than requesting it be put to a more vital...
...Group of Ten"--central bankers and finance ministers from the world's wealthiest Western nations--met here until 3 a.m. local time to decide what conditions to attach to a massive credit program to aid the franc...
When it comes to housing, the nation's largest and wealthiest city lives in an Alice in Wonderland world. Mostly since World War II, federal, state and city governments have underwritten some $8 billion worth of housing construction in New York City - enough to accommodate the entire population of, for example, Baltimore or Cleveland. Yet at the same time, New York's housing scarcity has not only persisted but worsened. In the hard marketplace of supply and demand, that means soaring rents...