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Died. Horace Mann Bond, 68, energetic Southern educator and father of Georgia State Representative Julian Bond; after a long illness; in Atlanta. The first black president of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Bond was an early critic of IQ tests, which he regarded as culturally biased in favor of affluent whites. An authority on Negro writing and history, he provided much of the research used by N.A.A.C.P. lawyers during the school desegregation cases...
...mechanics of the move are less clear. A majority of city people now belong to the lower-income groups, and affluent suburbanites seem determined to keep them out-white or black. Report Watts and Free: "No set of public issues affecting the status of nonwhite minorities was more complex, controversial and farther from solution in mid-1972 than those determining where low-income families could live and work...
...While a small minority in the U.S. is still underfed because of poverty, the huge majority packs away enormous quantities of edibles. The superficial cost is low; Americans spend less of their disposable income on food than any other nationality. The real cost is horrendous, because many of the affluent are shortening their lives by committing caloric harakiri...
...disaster was clearly foreseen by Kevin Phillips, author of The Emerging Republican Majority, who believes that the nomination "locked" the Democratic Party into the "new left side." In a remarkably prescient assessment, he wrote that "the Democratic Party is going to pay heavily for having become the party of affluent professionals, knowledgeable industry executives, social-cause activists and minorities of various sexual, racial, chronological and other hues." Indeed, the convention that nominated McGovern in Miami Beach may itself have impressed that change on the voters and put the election out of George McGovern's reach...
Garbage collection is hardly an enterprise that conjures up images of manicured executives, complex mergers and multimillion-dollar revenues. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. One reason for the rise is simply more garbage?the result of an expanding and increasingly affluent population. Further, as environmental concerns multiply and sanitation laws become tougher, there is greater demand for companies that offer modern processing, disposal and recycling techniques...