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...easy tactics of letting the economy largely right itself are so far working out fairly well. No American boys are fighting overseas; none are even being drafted. There is a growing sense of well-being in the country, particularly among the members of the huge and increasingly affluent middle class...
...problems that plague Detroit (pop. 1.4 million) differ only in magnitude from those that afflict other large cities in the U.S.: an eroding tax base as affluent whites abandon the core city; reduced services, including police protection; widespread unemployment, particularly among black youths; neighborhoods where housing and other buildings have been allowed to deteriorate; and low-quality schools. Perhaps more debilitating than any of these is a growing feeling that nothing will-or can-be done to reverse the trend...
...precisely sure of the reasons for the exurban increases, but there are some theories: rural and suburban police have improved crime reporting methods; youths in affluent suburbs are finding crime increasingly attractive; the nation's highway system has enabled criminals to become fast commuters...
...priced items, but A. & F. did not move far or fast enough. As recently as the mid-1960s, complains a New York advertising man, A. & F. was run "like a stuffy club"-still catering to wealthy Midwestern physicians who take four weeks off to shoot game in Wyoming. Young, affluent skiers, backpackers and tennis players came into A. & F. to admire its tony, well-stocked departments, but they bought their gear at cheaper places, such as Korvette's, Two Guys Stores and other discount operations catering to the outdoors set. None of those were around, of course, when...
Walter Mitty, that henpecked dreamer of great adventures, has been upstaged. His secret life has been researched, developed, costed and packaged for marketing to the tourist trade. Time was when the affluent American was content with touring the capitals...