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...considering running in a traditionally Republican district which includes the affluent. South Shore suburbs and Cape Cod as well as the depressed industrial city of New Bedford...
...Berkeley public schools. Begun voluntarily, the plan has met little community opposition, was completed in 1968, and still has the unanimous backing of the school board. It involves large-scale busing, including the transfer of 3,800 elementary pupils of both races and in both directions?some from affluent hillside homes into ghetto areas in the coastal flatland. The busing costs $270,000 a year, involves an average ride of 20 minutes each...
...support of a citizens' caucus as he seeks to oust Incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin, 71, a 14-term veteran who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Though Philbin is favored, Drinan's liberalism and antiwar stand are popular with his district's relatively affluent, middle-class voters. These qualities, combined with his age, make Drinan an attractive alternative for an electorate that is rapidly wearying of old-time machine politics...
...representatives of an alien culture, foreign businessmen and tourists are easily misunderstood and often resented-the more so if they come from an affluent, highly successful country. The Japanese are no exception, and in their case the resentment is compounded by bitter wartime memories. In Asian capitals, where groups of Japanese tourists are a common sight, marching behind a flag-carrying tour leader, their style and manner are often considered objectionable. They are famed as over-generous tippers and bad (but amiable) drinkers. They are also reputed to be single-minded in their pursuit of sex. Several Tokyo magazines carry...
...INTIL recently only dyspeptic phi-V-' losophers, conservationists and a handful of academics dared to question the proposition that economic expansion necessarily fosters human progress. Each jump of the national output of goods and services has been treated as a triumph, each fall as a setback. Like other affluent Western countries, the U.S. has avidly pursued prosperity, convinced that a rising standard of living would ameliorate if not dispel most economic and social ills...