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Senseless. Washington police and the FBI found no evidence that the assailants knew the identity of the victim, and they assumed it was a random robbery aimed at any affluent resident of the neighborhood. President Nixon called the shooting a "senseless thing" and praised Stennis as "the most indispensable" of all the Senators in helping achieve "the honorable peace" in Viet Nam. He said the weapon used apparently was a .22-cal. "Saturday night special," the kind of cheap handgun that the Senate last year voted to ban. (The bill died because the House did not agree.) Nixon said...
...hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile upon endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses of Mom and her affluent children...
...issue behind the separatist rebellion is primarily economic. The more affluent Andhras charge that the economically depressed Telanganans have demanded special privileges for themselves ever since the two areas were joined together in 1956 to form the state of Andhra Pradesh. The discontent came to a head when the Indian Supreme Court ruled last October that a series of antiquated laws known as the "Mulki rules" were constitutional. The laws, enacted in 1918 to preserve jobs for local workers when the Nizam of Hyderabad was importing help from other parts of India to staff his princely concerns, give preference...
...country run on part-time jobs would provide a practical alternative to middle-class life within the framework of existing institution. By permitting a more flexible adjustment between the desires of the individual and the opportunities for satisfaction. It promises a new life-style, which would be less affluent, but more free...
Nicknames. The clubs still exist but most of them are faded husks of their former elegance. They are simply too expensive to be kept up. The few clubs that have retained the grand old look are patronized mainly by affluent Indians. A visitor strolling across the manicured lawns of a private club these days is likely to hear an echo of the past in calls for "Jimmy" (short for "Jamshedji"), "Bunty" (a current Indian favorite) or "Sam" (which General Manekshaw prefixed to his string of Parsi names). The use of such Anglicisms dates back to the time when British officers...