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...carriage to hamlets dating from colonial times. It is horse country-Thoroughbreds, trotters and steeplechasers-a quiet haven for the landed gentry. But in the back country along the Maryland and Delaware borders, Chester County is also home to a band of outlaws that has preyed for years on affluent neighbors...
Nationally, the steepest rises have come in life's necessities: food, clothing, shelter, transportation. Since poor people have less money to start with, they have been squeezed harder than the mad-as-hell middle class and affluent people. In Atlanta, however, housing is an exception. Overbuilding in recent years has held prices down. A three-bedroom house at $54,000 is still far beyond the reach of someone earning even twice as much as $6,191 a year, which is the federally set "poverty level" for a nonfarm family of four. But the average price of a house...
Rising consumer confidence should boost demand, predicts the OECD, lifting total output of goods and services by 3.5% in Europe, vs. 2% in the U.S. Demand will also increase because West Germany and Japan are moving to stimulate their powerful economies, opening their markets to imports from less affluent trading partners. West German tax cuts and other expansive measures will amount to $8 billion this year...
...course, that's not quite the way it happened. The danger in reducing an entire decade into popular stereotypes is that all but the superficial aspects of the time get lost. Granted, the '50s were an affluent and relatively peaceful time in this country, but that peace and affluence brought with it a very conservative outlook. America had stemmed the tide of fascism, we had the bomb (and so did they), for the first time there was security and prosperity, and that brought with it commitment to the status quo. One didn't tamper with success, and as America...
Jeff and Chris are the third and fourth Ridgewood, N.J., youngsters to die by their own hands in the past 18 months. The suicides sent shock waves through the affluent suburb (pop. 27,500), only 20 miles from Manhattan. Students cried unashamedly in school halls and embraced each other. A school official broke down during an interview. Bewildered parents repeatedly asked, "Why is it happening here...