Heclaimed to have hadfewmemoriesof aschool which heattendedinRahway, theNew Jerseytownhisfamilyhadmoved to when Brooklyn-born Milton was 13 monthsold, buthe remembered gettinganickname.
Swindon, a Victorian railway town in Wiltshire, and Milton Keynes, a chunk of American suburbia in the middle of Buckinghamshire, are growing just as fast (see chart).