Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President had deliberately let the problem slide until after the U.S. elections. In the circumstances, both Ike and Anderson felt that a dramatic gesture was needed to get across his message: that the U.S. expects its affluent allies to do more toward carrying the free world's burdens. In the long run, the demands on West Germany might well be met in one form or another-to the eventual benefit of the Kennedy Administration. But in the short run, the Administration came in for heavy criticism. The cause was not helped much by Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson...
...most affluent area proved to be the Yard, however. The Drive collected $1,875.77 from the Class of '64 alone Monday night. The average contribution of freshman who paid was the second highest in the College, at $7.81 per person. One freshman gave $100, the largest single gift from an undergraduate...
Poor but Rich. The key to the waste is environment. Comparing opposite ends of the social scale, Dean Horace Mann Bond of Atlanta University reports that "culturally disadvantaged" families produce only one talented youngster for every 235 from "culturally advantaged" families. In affluent suburbs, 25% of all youngsters score 125 or above on IQ tests. In poor neighborhoods, only 6% do so. The reason is partly that IQ tests, though aimed at measuring intelligence rather than learning, necessarily reflect "normal" exposure to books, conversation and even material gadgets. Without such riches, the bright slum kid seems to get dumber...
Assistance Declined. To many businessmen, the biggest doubt about Kennedy's economic policies has been the liberal cast of his advisers, notably Harvard Professors John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Yet Schlesinger did not surface as a member of the Kennedy brain trust. And Galbraith admits that he is no longer very influential with Jack Kennedy...
...before the non-hero can be properly launched on his affluent career, otherwise known as the rat race, he must have a mate so that he can share his disenchantment. Early snapshots of his beloved are etched indelibly in the non-hero's mind, partly because he always lives his life flashbackwards. Nathan is forever recalling Amy arched against the sky on a diving board at poolside on her aunt's rambling estate. In disenchantment novels, these rambling estates are the toys of a gracious childhood soon to be whisked away by that legendary anti-Santa...