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That implacable leaper at conclusions, British Historian Arnold Toynbee, 72, now trains his erudition on a new target. He calls it "Madison Avenue"-by which he means not only U.S. advertising, but also the affluent society and much of U.S. business philosophy. In a remarkable, just published pamphlet-based on a speech delivered at Williamsburg, Va., in June-Professor Toynbee roundly condemns "Madison Avenue" as un-Christian and basically unAmerican...
...ignores a worldwide phenomenon. What the world's masses, particularly in underdeveloped nations, now aspire to is not just a bare subsistence. Convinced by the U.S. ex ample that poverty is not an essential condition of human existence, men from Karachi to the Congo are demanding an affluent society for themselves and are working toward...
Doug Dillon spent a secluded, affluent childhood in a series of suburban homes around New York City. The grandest o'i them all was Dunwalke. an estate in Far Hills. N.J.. that his father has owned since 1920. A wiry child who could read swiftly and understandingly at the age of four, Dillon was sent to be educated in private schools. The most challenging was the Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst. N.J., whose headmaster insisted that his every pupil learn the art of reading fast-and Dillon today riffles through even technical papers at 400 words a minute...
This, of course, didn't explain why well-off Mr. Smith should be made more well off by the Government at the taxpayers' expense-and for not working. But at week's end. the Government moved to make him just a mite less affluent. Freeman's Agriculture Department fined Cadillac Smith $321.84 for planting 7.1 acres more wheat last year than allowed by his 18.9-acre quota...
Shortage of Stones. Last week there was a rush of summer activity on West 47th as European buyers patrolled the street in search of fine stones. The newly affluent Europeans are now competing in ever-increasing numbers for the better diamonds that in the lean years after World War II went almost entirely to the U.S. market. Their demand, on top of the slowdown in the flow of new diamonds coming from the Congo and South African mines because of racial and political upheavals, has driven up prices, e.g.. a flawless, two-carat blue diamond that retailed for about...