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...home of their own as a free-standing one-family house (independence, shelter, family, the Little House on the Prairie still, even when the prairie has turned into Iowa City). One author, Jane Davison, called one-family suburban houses "an oppressive Utopian ideal, a spiritual imperative"the Levittown version of Ibsen's dollhouse. But economics and demographics, as well as feminist restlessness, intrude on the vision The size of the average American household has shrunk in 20 years from 3.3 to 2.75, a fragmentation that demands more housing units even at a moment when housing is harder than ever...
...often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck by a car waiting in line, other motorists filled up their tanks and drove off without paying. In Levittown, Pa., in an outbreak originally caused by truckers demonstrating against high diesel fuel prices, some 2,000 motorists and thrill-seekers clashed with the police in three days of rioting. Police arrested nearly 200. Local officials declared a state of emergency and enforced a curfew that prohibited more than five people...
...disgraceful conduct of striking teachers at Levittown [Nov. 27] is further proof that unions of government employees should be outlawed. Tire-slashing and window-breaking criminals should not be allowed to teach. Unions are the antithesis of liberty...
...Levittown tries to recover from the strike, FOR SALE signs stand next to pumpkins in front of many houses. The Caponi house in the Wantagh neighborhood is one of them. Although the Caponis had decided to sell before the teacher trouble, they are even more eager to move...
Unfortunately for sellers, Levittown houses have declined in value. "One Sunday the real estate fellow was bringing a couple out," says Rae Caponi. "When they found out what school district the house was in, they said 'No way.' " A mile down the road at MacArthur High School, the playing fields that in previous falls were ablaze with red and white jerseys are now deserted. Levittown likes its football, and people used to find the game a unifying force. Not this year. The schedule was canceled. For three or four seniors, the lost season means lost scholarships. "I would...