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Levitt's preoccupation today, as he guides his widening empire from an opulent headquarters at Long Island's Lake Success, is creating a new city of a size hitherto only dreamed of: 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 population. It would sprout in 50,000-people installments on a still-secret site in the countryside "where the air is still as God made it." Only by this kind of leap beyond the suburbs, Levitt persuasively argues, can the urbanizing U.S. remain fit to live in as it doubles its present physical plant over the next 35 years. To solve the job problem, he has been dickering with the heads of several major corporations that could put factories in his city. "I have no intention of retiring," says Levitt. "My life is a vacation, and rest I don't need."