HOUSING: Retreat

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The old urban dream of a little place in the country, the New York Times found in a survey, has been replaced by a more urgent "nightmare of atom bombs falling on cities." The nightmare, encouraged by real-estate promoters and advertising copywriters, has increased sales of rural properties—estates, farms, stores and other small businesses 50 miles or more from big cities—by as much as 100%.

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