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...area is now Nixon's by more than birthright. Orange today is affluent, expanding rapidly, suburban in appearance and conservative in politics. It is, in short, a microcosm of the America that may one day yield a national Republican majority. If there were sentimental reasons for re-establishing a Southern California homestead, there were practical ones as well. The West is growing faster than the East. California in 1972 will have the highest electoral vote of any state (it already has the largest population). In terms of both ideology and numbers, the G.O.P. counts California as the Western pillar...
Recognizing the pragmatic bent of Japan's increasingly affluent younger voters, even the tiny Communist Party -which went from four to 14 seats -downplayed dogma and emphasized inflation, air pollution and the need for more dobuita (gutter lids) in the streets. The Socialists, by comparison, trotted out unfamiliar, underfinanced candidates whose chief ideological equipment was a militant 19th century Marxism. Foreign policy? The Socialists demanded "unarmed neutrality" so loudly that voters identified the party with the antiwar students who tore up Tokyo last October. Domestic policy? The Socialists called for nationalization of industry -just as employers were handing...
...work a criminal wage. In Ohio, it is just that: for years, a state law has offered convicted persons the choice of paying their fines or working them off at the rate of $3 a day. Ohio's Supreme Court has just found that law unconstitutional. Because an affluent criminal can choose between jail or payment of a fine, but the indigent offender cannot, the court ruled that the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
...nation's thirst for Cold Duck began to rise last August. The product's popularity quickly spread from California to Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York, from downtown to affluent suburbs. Last week some New Jersey stores ran out of the concoction entirely. Whether they were moved by the fad or frugality, New Year's revelers decided that Cold Duck was just the tipple with which to see out the inflationary old year and toast in the uncertain...
...Angeles, amid the rolling hills Presbyterian of Minister suburban Gary La Demarest, Canada, 43, speaks wryly of his mission. "In the '60s, we saw ourselves out there leading the army magnificently, but when we looked back, the army wasn't there." Now he soldiers quietly by employing his affluent congregation in the task of finding low-cost housing for less prosperous families. The congregation recruits bankers, mortgage lawyers and other professionals to help low-income families find and purchase FHA homes. The congregation commits itself to advise and assist such families for the life of the mortgage...