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...because Vadim insists on treating his actresses like so many rhinestones in the buff, but there are good supporting performances by John David Carson as Hudson's protege and Telly Savalas as a grimly ironic cop, some agile plot twists, and an abundance of savage little insights into affluent California adolescents. Pretty Maids All in a Row ought to have been a lot better, but Vadim's limited success at least suggests that humor is a lot more helpful in dealing with youth than mindless sentimentality...
...city's tax base has been drastically narrowed as industry and the affluent continue their flight to the suburbs (TIME, April 26). The lone remaining source of revenue that the city has yet to take advantage of is an authorized auto-use tax of $10 per car, which, if the city council approves, will net the city another $15 million. A bittersweet city hall gag goes: "We've taxed everything that moves and everything that stands still...
...walkie-talkie, had locked the building, and were guarding all the doors. The marchers separated, covering both front and back entrances. As they milled around, discussing strategy, they became aware of a towering presence in their midst. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics and chronicler of the Affluent Society, emerged from the building. Galbraith, less than twenty-four hours back from a sabbatical in England, joined the group, leaning on the back of a white BMW. Soon, almost all the marchers had joined him, sitting on the car's trunk, or grouped around in a semicircle before him. Huntington...
...SOUND is the brainchild of Editor Roy Rowan, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE. A slick monthly that sells for $2, it is aimed at the 4,000,000 people who live on or near Long Island Sound. "Our readers are genuinely affluent, educated people," Rowan says, "who share a certain location and lifestyle and have common interests." Subject matter is a mixture of leisure and concerned ecology, stressing to Sound dwellers the joy of sailing on it or swim ming in it and the horrors of bilge-blowing tankers befouling...
...troops in Germany in 1945. The West Point archives, says the count, are also searching for relics. "Though I personally know only a very small portion of our regular customers," adds Klenau, "I'm convinced that they are not collecting for political reasons. I look at them as affluent, elderly, admittedly somewhat peculiar types who have an urge to get close to history...