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...opponent.' " ∙Gushes the sweet young thing to her studious male escort: "I guess I am to you what Cuba is to Russia-friendly, but expensive!" ∙To the police sergeant, the patrolman explains a fact of modern life: "You can tell the delinquents who come from affluent families-instead of razors they use electric carving knives!" These needle-sharp political gibes are the work of James O. Berry, 32, whose cartoon feature, Berry's World, is syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a New York affiliate of Scripps-Howard newspapers. They go to 570 papers throughout...
Europe is an automaker's dream. It has 300 million increasingly affluent people, but only one in 15 owns a car (v. one in three in the U.S.), leaving a tremendous potential for growth. European automakers will produce 7,000,000 cars this year, expect to overtake U.S. production by 1970. But there is a hitch: Europe has more than 50 auto manufacturers, and no market is big enough to support so many. Everyone expects a round of mergers, alliances and dropouts...
...over a decade, Photographer Richard Avedon's elegant, epicene high-fashion pictures have set the slick tone for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Now it turns out that all along Avedon has been disgusted by the affluent America he celebrates. To register his revulsion, he got together with James Baldwin (who was his old classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn...
...loan equaling what he had already paid off on the old mortgage. New forms of charge accounts, including those that can be repaid in installments, have become so widespread that 65% of all department-store sales are now charged. Many stores are also encouraging today's affluent teen-agers to take out special charge accounts. To speed the wheels of the credit society, an Alexandria, Va., firm last week introduced a compact electronic system called Credac that will check a customer's credit within ten seconds when fed the number of his charge account...
Other Joseph-types fantasize that the essentially impotent positions they hold are repositories of actual power (sometimes called the HCUA Delusion), or fool themselves into thinking that making a great deal of term-time money--and cultivating a middle-aged brusqueness towards less affluent classmates--is an equivalent substitute for influence in the community, or for real-life tycoonery...