Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barons of organized labor met for their biennial convention-and the tenth anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger-Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz aptly summarized the challenge confronting the unions in the affluent society. Said he: "Never before has the country faced so clearly the choice that it now faces between moving ahead or settling for what we now have, for leaning back, if you will, and patting our stomachs." For all the well-upholstered abdomens in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, there were signs of change by convention's end last week...
Some lawyers predict that Gideon will eventually be extended to juvenile courts which, being noncriminal courts, do not yet guarantee even affluent delinquents the Sixth Amendment right to counsel "in all criminal prosecutions." As a start, the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges plans to provide lawyers for indigent delinquents in Chicago, Newark, Cleveland and parts of North Carolina...
...sons of the affluent society tend to be taller, broader and-initially at least-a mite softer than depression-reared Willie and Joe of World War II vintage. Johnson's Army greets them much as he himself might: with a conscious effort to respect their individual dignity. Even more incredible to yesteryear's warriors is the official aura of sobersided respectability that Johnson has tried valiantly to imbue...
...affluent districts which send large numbers of their eligible young men to college, or in farm districts which have a substantial portion of their registrants in draft-exempt agricultural employment, boards have been extremely hard-pressed to find non-student inductees. Boards in southern states have already drafted substantial numbers of full-time students. But in other states--Illinois and Michigan, for example--there is no indication that boards will take students...
...bonds, an investor can get an annual income of $35,000 tax free. Most of today's newly rich entrepreneurs use their money in a more venturesome way, but few of them live on as grand a scale as the ostentatious millionaires of the Gilded Age. In an affluent nation where almost every middle-class wage earner can own a house and a car, take a holiday abroad and educate his children well, the F. Scott Fitzgerald aphorism-"The very rich, they are different from you and me"-is not nearly as true as it once...