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Considering the world we live in, why would anyone want to live past 70, let alone 120? MATT SLAVICK Levittown, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
...Between Levittown and the Land of the Neverending Fund Raiser lies East Moriches, where people fish, farm, run "country stores" and "garden centers," teach, practice law, hang dry walls and dig swimming pools for other people. On Atlantic Avenue, which leads to the Coast Guard station, the trees are fat, the sidewalks cracked, the homes need reshingling and bikes lean on kickstands in the driveways...
...ebullient age of bebop and charades and Sea Breezes and the new cellophane-wrapped cigarette packages; of returning soldiers and their wives conceiving the first baby boomers; of the goods and services that grew up around those families, from Levittown to Dr. Spock's baby book to frozen orange juice. But 1946 was a troubled time for Truman. His failed health plan was just a small part of an ambitious attempt to continue Franklin D. Roosevelt's activist domestic agenda. Truman found himself blocked by Roosevelt's nemesis: a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. The economy, although sound...
...trend of the past 40 years, is indeed at the heart of why the inner cities have been reduced to hollow shells peopled largely by poor non- whites. The process began after World War II, when veterans by the thousands moved their families to suburbs like New York's Levittown. The draining of the cities accelerated during the 1960s and '70s, when malls sprouted across the nation, diverting shoppers from downtown business districts. And it reached a peak during the 1980s, when employers joined the exodus from cities, transferring millions of jobs to suburban office parks. Now about half...
Randolph Marshall, 31, could not at first come to terms with the owners of the house he wanted to buy in Levittown, Pa. They did not want to accept a bid below $139,000, and he would not offer more than $128,000. Then, using a multiple-listing book, Marshall picked out 25 houses in the area that appealed to him. He was shocked to learn that all had been sold. Said he: "I got a little bit of buyer's panic." Marshall went back to the first home and last month signed a contract...