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SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO: In this affluent suburb of Cleveland, City Librarian Margaret Campbell, 60, is worried. How will she ever get back $157 worth of unreturned books when dishonesty reaches as high as the White House? "I'm just appalled by Watergate," she says. "What kind of world are we making for the young? How can we hope to inspire them if our officials are men they can't admire?" Once sympathetic to Nixon, Miss Campbell now salutes Barry Goldwater ("Though I never thought Fd be lined up with him!") for his call upon Nixon to exercise more...
Alice likes to describe himself as the end product of an affluent society overfed on the sex and violence of television. "Society has created this Frankenstein, this Alice Cooper," he says Actually, he is the ultimate put-on, a shuck. He comes from a background that is more like a wholesome Andy Hardy movie than something out of Frankenstein...
...tuition of $3,050 a year. Despite its altruism, the program has backfired. Many of the needy recruits, who now total about 10% of the student body, were ill prepared for college work, or for life in a rural middle-class community. Their presence has created new tensions-between affluent and poor, black and white...
Next, Muskie had surprising problems in California: trouble with floodlights that disturbed his delivery; his stationery was used again to tell potential large donors to keep their cash because he preferred to get a lot of collections from less affluent givers. Given the normal chance for foulups in any political campaign, it would be absurd to suggest that all of these incidents were the result of sabotage. But Segretti's activities provide ample reason for suspicion...
Success demanded a rapid buildup of affluent readers under 40 whom advertisers consider their most desirable audience. While circulation of the four monthlies ranged between 600,000 and 750,000, it lagged behind the guarantees used in selling ads. Advertising pages declined from 1,575 in 1971, to 1,408 last year...