Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clad only in signet ring and cigar, some of Germany's richest and most famed industrialists also frolic in the buff at exclusive North Sea beaches. What they all have in common, explains an earnest West German sociologist, is a need to escape from the tedium of the affluent society-"the craving to have something that everyone else doesn't have-or vice versa in this case." Nudism in Germany centers on the family. A husband can rarely become a card-carrying nudist unless his wife also joins the Free Body Culture Association...
...them (e.g., Campbell & Wong Associates. Francis Lloyd). San Franciscans, for example, stream out of their fogbound city in the late spring and summer. Those who can afford the best have summer houses along the northern Emerald Bay area of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line; the less affluent have cottages around the perimeter of the lake. Other rich Californians have summer houses on the magnificent Del Monte peninsula near Carmel and Monterey. More and more ordinary families, however, are moving into the rugged country north of San Francisco...
...dispose of the furniture, and often strike out for a place where he can warm his thinning blood in the hot sun. Many of the less well-off have flocked to such geriatric capitals as St. Petersburg, Fla., where 28.1% of the population is 65 or over.* The more affluent might choose the expensive isolation of a palm-fringed plot in the Virgin Islands or a Pacific beach front in Southern California...
McLain does not think his "villages" are in competition with Webb's "cities," which, he says, "are for the more affluent elderly who can more than afford to pay for them. Our aim is to create low-cost, quality rentals, and at the same time, like Sun City, give the old folks a good, busy life. It's got to be like a long vacation on a cruise ship-never a dull moment...
...First Lady is coifed by one of the most exclusive Parisian hair dressers (Carita), and dressed by Dior, whose salon is strategically located across the street from the Houphouet-Boignys' apartment. She prefers pastels and bright colors and, says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland), an Ivory Coast beach house, an ultramodern five-story tower in the fashionable Cocody sector of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast...