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...synchronized precision of a military operation. In addition to this main objective, he also assaults a number of targets of opportunity. There are flash backs about upper-class courtship and wedding rituals, a peek into office politics at U.S. Army training bases, and a particularly biting set piece about affluent Connecticut Episcopalians singing We Shall Overcome at a memorial service for Martin Luther King...
...year over the height of the Holiday Inn presages the future. The inexorable trend toward high-rise and toward tourist related development would surely accelerate. Land prices in low-income residential neighborhoods would rise, continuing the pressure on low-income citizens to leave Cambridge. Land values in the more affluent neighborhoods will diminish as the congestion affects the desirability of Cambridge as an attractive residential community...
Soaring electricity bills are angering homeowners all over the U.S., but the situation appears to be most highly charged in the New York area, where Con Edison's rates are among the highest in the nation. Several hundred residents of affluent Westchester County, which has possibly the largest concentration of all-electric homes in the U.S., have banded together to protest rate increases that have hiked their monthly bills from an average of $136.87 last March to $252.52 this month, an increase of 85%. Says Housewife Tena Jackson: "My electric bill was $267 in February-$98 more over last...
...constituency comprises some 475,000 people. The sixth stretches the length of the rugged North Shore; from the decaying industrial city of Lynn, to historic Salem, through the affluent one-time Yankee enclaves of Beverly Farms and Marblehead, to Gloucester where the shrinking fishing industry clamors for protective trade legislation...
...have families of wealth and position in the U.S. been so troubled about their safety. Though political in aim, the Hearst kidnaping was essentially a variant graft on that earlier malign strand of U.S. history. And the list of possible targets is no longer confined to the affluent. Murphy, 40, a man of comfortable but hardly gilt-edged circumstances, was apparently singled out for his prominence as a newsman and his importance to the Constitution's corporate owner. Thus when a demand of $700,000 for his ransom was made, it was clearly directed not to his family...