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...room for dancing. Nonetheless, major hotels are requiring four-day minimum stays at the standard $50 to $60 per day for two people. Those wanting limousines can get them for up to $250 a day but have to rent them for a minimum of five days. For the less affluent, there are free tourmobiles and shuttle buses...
...roots, trying to build bulwarks against the tide of social disintegration that has washed over so much of the country in the past two decades. George Gallup has found that a lot of Americans are going back to religion for guidance on how to live in these crowded and affluent times. The number of Americans who believe religious influence is increasing has tripled since 1970; 42% of all adults now go to church during a week. It could be, said Gallup, that we are at the beginning of a religious revival...
Most parts of the Middle Atlantic region have had to grow accustomed to the hard realities of economic stagnation, which set in before the national recession and is likely to survive it. In Philadelphia, Buffalo, Newark and even the affluent suburbs, talk soon turns to unemployment. There are jobs to be had, as any newspaper's want ads demonstrate, but only about half as many as were offered ten years ago. One reason that many of the jobs are going begging is that some unemployed people can afford to be choosy about work. For instance, in New York, dishwashing...
...society. As he has noted, the draft evaders are overwhelmingly white and middleclass. A report prepared for President Ford in 1975 placed 87% of them in this category. The deserters are largely poor and disproportionately black-more than 50% low-income and 20% black. In general, the more affluent, better-educated war resisters found the means to avoid service by evading the draft; the underprivileged submitted, turning against the war later, if at all, by deserting...
...society where you have unconventional feats such as Entebbe, it is hard to apply very definite rules in other fields of life." Such rules were not necessary in the past, he adds, because Israel's idealistic founders paid little attention to private benefits. In an affluent society, their successors obviously...