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...affluent society's phrase for what used to be known as salami tactics...
...breeding down to a population of field hands," says one of the many white merchants who are beginning to wonder whether the boycott might backfire. As the more affluent and educated Negroes pull out, the county's Negro population is becoming poorer and more restless. The whites are left with a heavier tax burden to carry-and a greater fear as well. Says one Negro leader: "There wouldn't have been a bloc vote, except the white people chose to make an issue of it. Now there will be a bloc...
...turned to film stars. First, notes the British Harper's Bazaar, there were "the ubiquitous and slightly blurred carbons of Elizabeth Taylor ... Since then, passing through the [Audrey] Hepburn phase, we are now being subjected to miniature Bardots." Most favored place in the sun, where thousands of newly affluent working girls now spend their vacations, is Italy. Hand in hand with the vogue for espresso bars has come the Italian look, with stiletto heels for town, tapered trousers for jaunts by Jaguar to Thames-side pubs...
...overhauled since 1929. Specifically he called for repeal of Clause Four, which calls for "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange." Nationalization had been tried by the Labor Party itself when it was in power and had proved no panacea. In the working man's affluent world of "the telly, the frig and the car," Gaitskell argued, the old slogans had no appeal...
...unmistakable liberal such as Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. But Kennedy's stands and voting records on most domestic issues are not widely different from Humphrey's. Kennedy's closest advisers on domestic policies, including Harvard Professors Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith, tend to be liberals of the Americans for Democratic Action camp. Kennedy falls easily into such sweeping A.D.A.-type rhetoric as "17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night." Following the liberal line that the U.S. economy is not growing fast enough...