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Buoyed by large and rousing crowds on his first extended campaign swing since he won his party's nomination, Gerald Ford opened the week with a three-day foray into the South. In Alabama and Mississippi, his audiences -mostly white and affluent-cheered his attacks on Carter's vow to cut the growth in defense spending and roared approval of the President's opposition to gun controls...
Many white businessmen hope there will not be all that much to pay; they expect the projected lifting of the economic boycott against Rhodesia to help everyone. Indeed, stocks on the Salisbury exchange have begun edging upward. Houses that had been up for sale in affluent white areas are being either withdrawn from the market or marked up in price. One white who now pays only $225 a month for a five-bedroom house in the capital's suburbs of Highlands was startled to be told that his rent will double when his current lease expires...
...WATTS GHETTO IS WITHIN 20 miles of Palisades High School, Palisades Calif. But no one at the school expected the eruption that occurred in the summer of '65--in fact, none of that year's graduating seniors knew the ghetto existed. Their lives in the affluent suburbs came nowhere near preparing them for the world into which they emerged, a world increasingly aware of an immoral war, of civil rights issues, of women's issues, of all the social injustices that surrounded that suburban existence...
...says Okada. The store is a purveyor to the imperial family, outfitting Emperor Hirohito with suits and shirts. Competitors often snicker at Mitsukoshi's "imperial connection," charging that it makes the store snobbish and elitist. But Okada points out that half the store's business comes from affluent Japanese in their 20s and 30s who are attracted by Mitsukoshi's talent for combining modernity and tradition...
...days, streams of Buddhist pilgrims braving high winds and sub-zero temperatures had made their way along some of the world's tallest mountains in central Kashmir. Most came on foot, some by yak, the more affluent by treacherous day-long Jeep or bus rides. Their destination: Leh, a remote stronghold of the Tibetan culture that had been selected by the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled God-King, for a rare spiritual event...