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...teacher in one of the newest schools in Escambia County. Children are stuffed into classrooms, sit in broken chairs, taught on the stage in the "cafetorium," have speech classes in a closet between a Coke machine and the teachers' mailboxes, eat a 15-minute lunch in silence. Our affluent society is cheating children. It is time to stop...
...downs of the U.S. birth rate (see chart) have experts pondering the mysteries of cause and effect. After both World Wars, there was a predictable surge after servicemen returned from overseas. But how to account for the drop during the prosperous 1920s and the affluent late '50s and '60s? The lowering birth rate has nothing to do with fertility, says Natality Statistics Chief Arthur A. Campbell; in fact, women are proving more fertile than the mothers of 30 years ago (88 babies for each 1,000 women of childbearing age v. 76 a generation...
Second, one wonders whether he could adapt his theories of the Affluent Society sufficiently to mollify the abusive Harvard Society of Masochists. One hopes so: imagine Galbraith, immaculately tailored, swinging his walking stick against the hardwood, cursing at Jack Rohan's Columbian technocrats. "Gallagher," he might say, "you must maximize your scoring output without University...
...Cincinnati, Thomas Shuff of Hayden, Stone Inc., has started an eight-week, non-credit course on investments at the city university. Last week, at the first session, he was pleasantly surprised to find his classroom packed with 200 possible accounts. Even unions, with big pension funds and increasingly affluent members, are eager to learn about the market. Reynolds was recently asked by a New York local of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to give a four-session course to the brotherhood...
...Wine, New Bottle. In any case, the work will probably be as much debated in the '60s as The Affluent Society was in the '50s. "Anybody who talks about modern economics from now on," predicts former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, "is going to have to talk about...