Word: affluents
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...casting a child adrift in New York's schools, perhaps to find excellence and perhaps only to acquire a Bronx accent, is not to the taste of most white parents affluent enough to afford any alternative. New York is losing four students to the suburbs for every one it gets back. The city's total public school enrollment is up 20,000 this year. But nonpublic enrollment is rising faster; 25,000 youngsters are in private schools and 400,000 in parochial (chiefly Roman Catholic) schools. Negroes and Puerto Ricans last year comprised 40.5% of the city...
From time to time, when he was U.S. Ambassador to India, Author (The Affluent Society) J. Kenneth Galbraith was heard to voice similar views on the subject of State Department potato picking. Curiously, Galbraith claims that he has never heard of Mark Epernay. Author Epernay has heard of Galbraith, all right. He gives him a McL-C of 1¼ minutes, lowest of any executive then attached to the Federal Government...
CHALLENGE TO AFFLUENCE, by Gunnar Myrdal. Attacking the Galbraithian theory of the affluent society, the eminent Swedish sociologist argues that the U.S. has to raise its economic growth rate from the current 1% and start producing again...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warberg Professor of Economics, also spoke at the afternoon session, discussing what he considers the big problem in international relations today--the disparities between the affluent and the poor nations...
...Winthrop Master stressed the unanimity of his colleagues, who requested the system three years ago. "I'm glad we'll no longer have to assign the best rooms to affluent sophomores, when seniors with theses to write can't afford them...