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...midweek, she gave a black-tie dinner for 27 guests in honor of John Kenneth Galbraith, the witty economist who invented the phrase "the affluent society" and likes to continue his researches into it. A crowd stood by oohing and ogling as the Cadillacs began sweeping up to Jackie's Fifth Avenue apartment. Each guest was checked by Secret Service men before entering the building, but that hardly seemed necessary. The guests were easily recognizable and hardly the crashing type: the Bobby Kennedys (who arrived one at a time in a beige Lincoln Continental convertible), the Stephen Smiths...
...will be a trillion gallons by the end of the century. The statistics are less a reflection of the country's burgeoning population than the result of modern industrial society's increasing and unquenchable thirst. For all the bathtubs, dishwashers, washing machines and lawn sprinklers of an affluent era, home use of water still represents less than 10% of the nation's consumption. Nearly half goes for irrigation, another 40% for industry. It takes 770 gallons of water to refine a barrel of petroleum, up to 65,000 gallons to turn out a ton of steel...
...make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through a rainy night on a broad new highway, might give a glimmer of a truer judgment: the strong and affluent U.S. can conquer traffic congestion-and is well along the road toward doing...
Bickering & Complaining. No one need look far to see that the world's money system is not working smoothly. The affluent nations of the West are bickering with each other over the system's inadequacies and how they should be corrected; the poor nations are complaining that the system works to their disadvantage. Britain's money problems?the pound has faced crisis after crisis?have forced the country into a recession. Charles de Gaulle has hit at the U.S. by exchanging for gold the dollars that France has acquired, thus helping to force the world's richest nation...
...Until 1955, a Calcutta was an integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team to the highest bidder. If the members were affluent and the bidding spirited, the pot sometimes went into five figures-which the "owners" of the winning teams happily pocketed. Then disaster struck. Two con men showed up as guests at a respectable Long Island club, posted grossly exaggerated handicaps, and bought a piece of themselves. They handily won their...