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...adopted other children, ultimately eight in all, including blacks and Koreans. He once heard an affluent black doctor at an adoption agency reject a child because he was "too black." Snapped Jones: "Well, I'll take him then." The mayor appointed him the first full-time director of the Indianapolis human rights commission. Jones became increasingly embittered at the racism he encountered. His wife was spat upon while walking with their black child, and when one of his Korean children was killed in a car accident, he later said, he could find white undertaker to bury...
DIED. Richard D. Chapman, 67, the Ben Hogan of amateur golf; of a stroke; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The affluent Chapman studied his hobby as if it were his profession, qualified to play in 19 Masters tournaments and, among other victories over his three-decade career, captured the U.S. and British national championships...
...biggest factor behind that phenomenon has been the rise of two-income families, in which neither spouse has much time to spend prowling through stores. Other converts to catalogues are affluent singles and childless couples whose active working and social lives similarly leave little room for shopping. To reach these busy big spenders, retailers are increasingly resorting to the mails, and the result has been an explosion not only in the number of catalogues but also in the variety of goods that can be bought through them...
...young turn to crime, so do the poor. The turn to crime as the clearest opportunity for success, and the route taken by their role models; IBM doesn't recruit in the ghetto, but the numbers runners do. And the need for success, almost palpable in affluent American society, redoubled by television, cannot be underestimated; lack of material success means lack of identity, and the precarious sense of self of poor people causes them to seek the excitement of crime to confirm their existence...
...blacks live that makes South Africa so jarring, I suppose. The difference between the comfortable suburbs and the shanty towns exists in many countries; there is a big difference between Chevy Chase and Washington's inner city, too. But elsewhere it is not enforced by law, and elsewhere, the affluent society would have some awareness of how the other three-quarters live. Whites need a special permit to visit black townships, for instance, just as blacks need passes to go into white areas. And elsewhere, the system is not so all-inclusive; in South Africa, even black education is designed...