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...Bravo, Father Clements! You are resurrecting a school system that they can't wait to bury here in the affluent white suburbs. If I were in the Chicago suburbs I swear I'd bus my children to your school...
...RUNS CONGRESS? Any casual observer knows--the committee chairmen, the president and the attentive, affluent corporations. Touted as an "eye-catching and urgent, report," the book was written before the completion of research for Nader's Congress Project to make sure it would appear before the elections. This first publication of the Congress Project is a compendium of stale gossip, common knowledge and worn proposals. Although the premise for the report is that an informed citizenry will act, the glut of information may be an impediment rather than a spur to the reader...
Christmas Gift. In some wealthy suburbs, where the need for services and facilities is slight, revenue-sharing cash will build swimming pools and tennis courts. Edina, Minn., will use part of its $160,000 to carve out bicycle paths. Less affluent North Little Rock, Ark., is badly in need of improved drainage and sewerage facilities, but its mayor, William Laman, is determined to invest part of the city's $500,000 in Christmas decorations. In Los Angeles, which gets a $35 million share, Mayor Sam Yorty wants to use some of the money to build a huge maintenance center...
...affluent, conservative's dressed gathering did not seem particularly disturbed by President Nixon's failure to carry Massachusetts, nor particularly jubiliant over the President's anticipated re-election...
...Violence and sex sell," says Alice. "That's our appeal. The audience knows I'm parodying what they see every day on television. We're the ultimate American band-the end product of an affluent society." Once in Muskegon, Mich., the offspring of that society tore Alice from the stage, ripping off his clothes and jewelry. Nursing a cut on his back, Alice chirped: "They're like piranha fish. I like an audience that's alive...