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Lonnie Corder, a 19-year-old University of Oklahoma freshman, recently placed a classified ad in the Oklahoma Daily: "Are your parties a little dull? Rent a hippie. Nothing that will spoil the atmosphere, just add that little aesthetic flavor." Now, at $10 an hour, some affluent gentry of Norman, Okla., are renting the longhairs of the counterculture to decorate their parties. Thus, presumably in a triumph of free enterprise, a student whose parents have cut him off for looking like a freak can work his way through college by being...
Scott seems to have invested more than the usual portion of his personal anguish and anger in the role of Archie, an affluent San Francisco physician newly separated from his wife, who falls crazily in love with a tormented bitch named Petulia. Lester's film contains some of the best sequences of sexual and romantic tension ever caught by a camera, and Scott provides most of them. In one memorable scene, his ex-wife has come to visit him and brings a bag of homemade cookies with her as a peace offering. As the discussion becomes edgier and more hostile...
...AFFLUENT SETTLED. This type of Suburb is not growing so rapidly as the Bedroom. It is more self-sufficient, even less of a dormitory for the central city. Here-the town of Fairfield, Conn., for example, or Huntington, L.I., or Arlington, Va.-the incomes may not be quite so high and there are slightly fewer homeowners. Protestants barely outnumber Catholics, though together they are a massive majority; only 6% are Jewish, double the proportion for Affluent Bedroom suburbs but hardly a significant minority. Here Nixon won-but only by 47% to 40%. The boredom quotient is higher; nearly half think...
BLACKS. Harris concludes that suburbanites do want a certain degree of exclusivity, but he found that it is more a question of class than of color. The same affluent suburbs that oppose low-income housing by more than 3 to 1 would welcome blacks, 50% to 32%. Blacks who can afford to live in a high-income community would be acceptable, it seems, while the poor, of whatever color, would not. Whites, some of whom possibly ascribe to neighbors prejudices that they would not admit to in themselves, feel strongly (67% to 12%) that most others in the community would...
...examine the four types of suburbs delineated in the Harris studies, TIME correspondents visited an example of each. Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, who worked for six years on the Kansas City Star, went back for this report on a typical affluent bedroom community...