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...plain-spoken son of a country preacher who now sports $15 Gucci ties and owns an elegant Japanese-style house in a quiet corner of northwest Washington, D.C. He is a middle-aged prairie populist whose strongest national appeal has been to the young and to the affluent and well-educated citizens of suburbia. He is an outwardly diffident, gentle man-Robert Kennedy once called him the only decent man in the U.S. Senate -whose professorial facade conceals a core of toughness and ambition. He likes movies and chocolate milkshakes, and has fired subordinates for unduly chewing out people working...
...Eartha Kitt, currently on tour there, is a lithe and lively success in apartheid-land. The black singer from North, S.C., is putting up with the South African law that segregates her audiences because, she says, "Communication is better than isolation. I would rather take from the affluent whites and make prices lower for nonwhites and leave part of my earnings in this country for the education of nonwhites...
...socioeconomic disease. While genetic, chromosomal and hereditary causes occur with about the same frequency in all racial and economic groups, retardation of unknown origin is nearly ten times more likely to occur among the poor, black and Spanish-speaking in the U.S. than among the white and affluent...
Concerning U.S. strategy to maintain Thieu in office, the Vietnam Courier said that Nixon "wants to prosecute (in South Vietnam) a kind of war of attrition in which the patience and strength of the South Vietnamese patriots would experience a hard trial whereas the affluent U.S., which has only greenbacks to lose--though less than previously--will be able to hold out indefinitely and come out victorious at long last...
...neglects nothing related to the business aspect of sport. Durso shows how football's history led from its early struggles for financial survical to an affluent state where a one-minute TV commercial for the Super Bowl costs $200,000. The concentration on the financial aspects of sports, however, are only initially interesting. The quotation of astronomically figures eventually becomes boring, and it is only Durso's good writing which rescues his intelligent intellectual approach from an oblivion of six-diget numbers...