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Seeing that affluent members of the generation prefer foreign cars, Detroit's automakers are counterattacking. One entry: Cadillac's Cimarron, whose hefty price of $12,000 and up has not discouraged sales thus far, and should not if General Motors' calculations prove correct. The company has found that during the 1980s, the number of people in the 35-to-44 age bracket earning more than $35,000 should grow by 129%. As in many other businesses, Detroit knows that those baby-boom consumers will be fueling its sales for years to come. -By John S. DeMott...
...Affluent parents of Boston and thereabouts know the town for the Putney School. It has tutored children of the famous, including some Kennedys. The area holds other well-known people, including retired Senator George Aiken, former Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Painter Jim Dine. Ted Williams is said to visit an ex-wife occasionally in these parts...
...communities, the News started to slip as its traditional audience moved to the suburbs. Circulation dropped from 1.9 million in 1975 to 1.5 million last spring. To stanch the flow, the News and the parent Chicago Tribune Co. decided to seek a new readership among New York commuters and affluent Manhattan residents. They launched Tonight as a sophisticated answer to Rupert Murdoch's sensation-mongering New York Post, which had the afternoon market all to itself. Clay Felker, who had founded New York magazine, was brought in as editor, and scores of new writers, editors and graphics artists were...
...fact that, as Rouse puts it, "black people have no image of success in business." More than 40% of the Harborplace workforce is drawn from minorities. In most urban renewal projects, blacks and other minorities often complain, with good reason, that they have been displaced to make room for affluent whites. This is not a fair charge in Rouse's case, however, since most of his developments have been planned around thinly populated areas and have in fact helped stabilize adjoining neighborhoods...
...Jews, predominantly a working-class constituency in the new immigrant cities of Beersheba and Qiryat Shemona and the grimy slums of greater Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, rejected the traditional socialism of the Labor Party in favor of the radical right-wing nationalism of the Likud. In turn, the more affluent Ashkenazi Jews from northern Europe backed Labor. Ironically, Begin, an Ashkenazi from Poland, was idolized by his more extremist Sephardi followers, who proclaimed him "King of Israel" in campaign slogans and songs...