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...Panthers have accosted. Indeed, the Panthers have gotten more heat from their own brethren than from the police. Bill McWilliams, owner of three gay bars, says, for example, that the patrons of his Boot Camp bar can take good care of themselves. Moreover, many of the city's affluent gays do not like the idea of hard-eyed homosexual toughs causing commotion in the streets. But Ray insists that his Draconian measures are necessary. "Middle America has always had a little tinge of homophobia," he says. "But I've had it up to here. All this queer bashing...
...tourist buses are parked next to the lords' Rolls-Royces. Nearly 500,000 persons visited the casino during the year. Ardent gamblers from Italy make up one-fourth of the clientele, but S.B.M. is trying to draw more affluent tourists from Germany, Spain and Britain. Near the casino, where pigeon-shooting grounds were located until Rainier's princess gave the coup de Grace to the cruel sport, S.B.M. is building a big convention center. Already it has booked 55 conventions for the year, and conventioneers from anthropologists to acupuncturists are droning speeches by day and dropping money...
Though the land rush is powered in no small part by affluent people seeking second homes, it is making the housing situation more crowded for the less fortunate. Lot prices now account for 24% of the total price of a typical new single-family home, up from 19% a decade ago. As lots become more expensive, developers try to keep profits up by constructing higher-priced houses or by building less house for the money eliminating such features as patios and two-car garages...
...position in the federal government of the United States; a government which spends annually more than a quarter of a trillion dollars, which employs 15 per cent of the work force of the country and, most importantly, a government which has a pervasive and growing influence over the most affluent and sophisticated society in world history...
...quarter of 1973, 37% faster than a year earlier. U.S. production is still climbing and unemployment declining, a condition that can hardly be called recession-yet. All the same, soaring prices and scarcities, above all of food, are producing a series of hardship stories frighteningly reminiscent, in a supposedly affluent society, of tales of the Great Depression...