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...pursuit of the suburban dream, Americans have precipitated one of the largest mass movements in history: during the past decade, the population of suburbia has grown by more than 15 million. According to the preliminary 1970 census reports, there are now 74.9 million people classified as suburbanites, a 25% increase over 1960. This surge has made suburbanites the largest group in the land, outnumbering both city dwellers and those who live in rural areas. So many Americans have already achieved the suburban goal that suburbia itself has undergone a mutation. Inevitably, the new migrants have undone the cliché image...
...reason the Harris results are at odds with the myth is that they are based on what the Census Bureau considers to be a suburb, which is, roughly, that part of a metropolitan area surrounding a central city with a population of 50,000 or more. That includes some unexpected territory. Nassau County on Long Island is obviously suburban, reaching only 20 miles from Manhattan at its farthest point. Most Americans would also consider California's Marin County to be a suburb: many of its residents commute across the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco from upper-bohemian Sausalito...
...ideology, it became progressively more anarchist-adopting a black flag with a dollar sign as its official flag. A series of SIL-sponsored conferences featuring well-known right-wing libertarian speakers met with success in all parts of the country. SIL was active in organizing national resistance to the census of 1970-in Hawaii, the head of SIL's census resistance organization is currently under indictment for census evasion. SIL has also become heavily involved in tax resistance. In the Boston area, SIL is organizing an anti-tax rally on Boston Common for April...
...only 20 years ago that the world's first commercially sold computer, a Univac Model I, was installed at the Bureau of the Census in Washington. Today hardly any type of commercial or human activity in the U.S. goes unrecorded, unpredicted or unencumbered by computers. The machines keep track of almost every bank check, reserve nearly all scheduled-airline seats, scrutinize every federal income tax return. Computers help to diagnose illnesses, plan radiation therapy, and map a path for the brain surgeon's scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot...
...nation's expanding wealth and its enormous range of economic choices give Census Director Brown reason for optimism. "George Orwell was wrong," he says. "Everything I see indicates that we are going into 1985 in a country that is basically people-oriented, with strong individualism, a free market and a democratic society beset by many problems, but working them out in terms of human liberty and dignity...