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...country which has historically had its own bitter share of regional conflict. I would expect people, who have their sympathies with one side in such a conflict, who nevertheless have only an essentially ideological interest in it and who get "passionately" involved in it from the, so to speak, affluent complacency of their Ivy League education. I would expect from such people to be in the forefront of reconciliation and of the search for a way to peace. If this is too much to hope for, as I bitterly realized last night. I would expect them to be reserved...
...Polish-Irish-Russian 13th Ward on the Southwest Side, Epton took 34,856 votes to Washington's 1,457. Even the famed Eleventh Ward of Bridgeport, the bedrock Democratic base of the late Mayor Daley, voted overwhelmingly Republican. Holding the electoral balance were the city's six affluent "Lakefront Liberal" wards. Undecided until the very end, they finally gave Washington 40% of their vote, enough to assure his 51.8% majority...
...needs" that had to be satisfied or expressed to insure personal growth and satisfaction. Another psychologist, Abraham Maslow, had developed a persuasive case for the fact that higher needs could be fulfilled only after basic economic and security needs had been met. And in the sixties, among relatively affluent college students, it did indeed seem to be a time when economic needs had been met and one could safely "tune in turn on and drop out" to use the catch phrase that I eary popularized Students began experimenting in a variety of ways to fulfill themselves through more, and more...
...advertisers, who have already signed up to buy 600 pages this year, the magazine provides a relatively affluent readership. TV-CABLE WEEK is competing for advertisers and indirectly for readers with the nation's largest weekly, TV Guide (circ. 17 million). TV Guide publishes 107 regional editions; in the past year it has increased its cable coverage to 40% of the listings space. But it is not system-specific. Publishing industry analysts reason that there is room for both weeklies. Said J. Kendrick Noble of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "The new magazine could become the principal TV directory...
...Rose Mungon, spreading Washington pamphlets on the city's affluent take front. Epton's campaign was "the most racist in history...