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...glitter of diamonds to new markets. In the U.S., which traditionally buys one-half of the world's gem diamonds, jewelry has lost some of its shine-people who can afford diamonds often prefer other luxuries, such as trips abroad. De Beers is concentrating on the newly affluent Europeans, subjecting them to a multimillion-dollar ad campaign. As usual, the company's name appears only in tiny, sedate type in the ads. It doesn't need to appear at all, for 80% of the world's diamonds are sold through De Beers...
...affluent Britain, unemployment is even harder to take than it was in Depression days, when hardship was the rule rather than the exception. "Today," says Joe Dyson, a Hartlepool shipyard plater, "we have been leading different lives, with nice little homes and little luxuries. A man on the dole now has more to lose than he ever owned...
When a long-dormant volcano spewed molten rock over their windswept Atlantic island in October 1961, the 260 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha were rescued and brought to never-had-it-so-good Britain. Last week, after a year's exposure to the packaged joys of the affluent society, the hardy, forthright islanders decided that they had never had it so bad. In a secret ballot to decide whether or not they should return to a primitive, precarious existence on their isolated island, adult Tristan islanders voted overwhelmingly, 148 to 5, to return home...
...needs the National Observer?" asked the National Observer in an ad that answered its own question: "Affluent and influential people" who need color television sets, cars, European vacations and a new kitchen stove...
Douglas noted that the Russian standard of living, although lower than America's, makes it "a member of the affluent society" and "a symbol of revolt against the status quo" to the countries of the Middle East and Africa...