Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decree terminating the Assembly, but one bishop contemptuously tore it off the synod gate. Shrugging off a warning from the Ministry of Justice that they were committing a crime by electing and transferring bishops, the Assembly last week kept on sending them off to churches to be consecrated in affluent new jobs. The attendant congregations, instead of greeting the prelates with the liturgical chant of "Worthy, worthy," shouted "Unworthy! Unworthy!" and exchanged kicks and blows with the bishops' partisans...
...meetings that concern me," he says. Once he plodded door-to-door in rural W. Hampshire to explain his plans in iving rooms. Recently he helped persuade residents of Greenwich, Conn., hat they could afford a new high school costing $11,800,000. Even Indiana's less affluent Lawrence Township approved Engelhardt's $5,000,000 high school. "It's air-conditioned and has a swimming pool; yet we didn't have any kind of friction at all," boasts Superintendent Edwin Estell...
...Warsaw Convention, a civil aviation treaty now covering 92 nations, the heirs of those who died on international flights could for many years collect only a maximum of $8,291*-unless they could prove willful misconduct. The U.S., whose citizens are the world's most frequent and most affluent air travelers, has for years considered this figure ridiculously low. Even after 45 of the Warsaw signers agreed to double the liability to $16,582 in 1955, the U.S. felt that the increase was not nearly enough, declined to ratify the new protocol...
...Vellucci, like his eight colleagues on the City Council, is taking inventory this year. Each surveys his own stock of votes: Vellucci in his East Cambridge strongholds, Thomas H. D. Mahoney (chairman of the history department at M.I.T.) at evening coffees and cocktail parties in the affluent Brattle Street neighborhood, and Dan Hayes in North Cambridge. When the ballots are counted on Nov. 2, each will know whether his assets are still negotiable...
...Mood to Pare. Since buyers in todays affluent market are willing to pay more for comfort, convenience and gimmickry, the builders themselves absorb only part of the costs of the extras. In any case, they are in no mood to pare prices: they expect demand to increase next year, when the new Housing Act will enable veterans to get longer and lower-cost mortgage loans and will provide easier federal financing for higher-priced homes and raw land In addition, the number of Americans who will marry and enter the housing market will jump this year from...