Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lack of heavy snow-home snowplows. More than 1,000 plows priced from $129 to $169 have already been sold v. only 100 at this time last year. Polk thinks the home snowplow is beginning to compete with the foreign car as "the new mark of distinction in the suburb." Montgomery Ward has a solid cake ready for holiday frosting. Last week it reported sales for its first fiscal ten months...
...master plan was drawn by Architect William L. Pereira, who did the overall design for the University of California's Santa Barbara branch. Instead of developing the Irvine ranch simply as a suburb of sprawling Los Angeles, Pereira has planned an independent, self-supporting city. The first community in the urban area (see map) will border Newport Beach, have a $150 million shopping center with garden apartments, single homes and acres of green lawns. "This community will not be dominated by the auto," says Pereira. "It will be a walking community where women can stroll to the shops with...
...father had been baptized but wandered from the church," says Murray. "But my mother was a practicing Catholic, and after their marriage he rallied around." Early in his childhood, the family moved across the East River to Jamaica, now a crowded segment of the city but then a rural suburb. Here John Murray, with his two sisters, had a happy, uneventful childhood until his father died when he was twelve...
...suburb of Highland Park will go up a Black Sheep Club where the pretty waitresses will be long of leg and short of clothes, the drinks expensive ($1.50 a shot), and the access limited to gentlemen keyholders and their guests. The building will be the newest addition to the fast-growing number of key clubs whose keys have become a new status symbol for those who do their playing on expense accounts...
Matt Jones is a run-of-the-Miltown adman who lives in a suburb of New York's Westchester County, where the only certainties are debt and taxes. Peaceable Lane is a newly planted colony of middle-class status creepers whose houses cost $30,000. "You can get some pretty odd ones at those prices," says a big-rich snob from nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite...