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...Corps volunteers have been living and working primarily in primitive, remote villages with Chile's poor, trying to help them obtain a bigger share of their country's wealth. The volunteers helped these people realize what a "screwing" they have been getting from their country's affluent. Now at last, with U.S. help, the poor have had the courage at the polls to let their country know how they really feel. Maybe Allende should politely say, "Thank you, Peace Corps. Stay and keep up the good work." Will he have the courage...
Greyhound also wants to bring more affluent passengers to the bus. Kerrigan is expanding a VIP service, which at some terminals enables riders to check their baggage at the ticket counter, leave their coats with a steward, travel nonstop for up to 200 miles and arrive at their destination with nearly the speed of air travel (counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend...
Just recently she acquired her first steady beau, Seth Morgan, 21, an affluent Easterner from Blue Hill, Me., who thrilled Janis by, among other things, paying the dinner checks she always used to have to pick up herself, even when in a crowd. To her friends, she talked casually of the possibility of marriage. Her new back-up group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, had got excellent notices on a coast-to-coast tour last summer. Recording sessions for Columbia-six-day-a-week affairs, often running from 2 p.m. to midnight-had been going well. Out of ten songs...
...notion that all workers are members of the affluent American middle class and have all got it made is just so much malarkey," he said...
...last year, Cross said "A college today stands uneasily between the turbulence we now take for granted in adolescence and the disarray of contemporary society. It's unreasonable to expect that most students will experience four 'bright college years.' ... Young people today find themselves in a society both more affluent, and so powerful, and less sure of itself (probably rightly so) than any previous American society. I hope our prescription for college students, college faculty, and college administrators can be not purgative so much as energizing...