Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmistakable liberal such as Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. But Kennedy's stands and voting records on most domestic issues are not widely different from Humphrey's. Kennedy's closest advisers on domestic policies, including Harvard Professors Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith, tend to be liberals of the Americans for Democratic Action camp. Kennedy falls easily into such sweeping A.D.A.-type rhetoric as "17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night." Following the liberal line that the U.S. economy is not growing fast enough...
...California, Lawyer Murray Chotiner, campaign manager for Dick Nixon in races for Congress, the Senate and the vice-presidency, failed in his own first race for the Republican congressional nomination in the affluent 16th (Beverly Hills) District. After 1956 charges that he had been an influence peddler around Washington, Murray Chotiner abruptly retired from Nixon's life, campaigned for Congress this spring with glacial silence from Nixon, lost to a soft-hitting wealthy oilman, Alphonzo E. Bell...
...Affluent Revolution. In the first day of the conference, the whole carefully planned agenda on the three principal issues (see below) went out the window. But the big fact of the summit meeting -at least at the start-was that the West was confronted not by a change in the issues but an apparent change in Khrushchev. The Khrushchev they had expected to meet was committed to "peaceful coexistence" at least in name. With his rejection of Stalinism, he had staked out his place in Communist history as the exponent of the affluent revolution, of a Soviet society no longer...
...world of fund-raising organizations and church administrators, the conception of the parish church as the beating heart of a community is growing steadily rarer. But Holy Trinity is a relic of the more personal past, preserved by poverty. "We're an island in the affluent society," says Father Kern. "Most people just don't believe there are poor any more. But there are plenty of them. We painted the church and parish house bright white for a reason. The incoming people hear that there's a big white place where they can get help. There...
Leathery, blue-eyed Victor L. Butterfield, 56, is no man to blame The Bomb or The Affluent Society. The main cause of student lethargy, says he, is the "paternalistic" U.S. system of spoon-fed lectures and assembly-line grading. "We treat students more as prep-school boys than as adults under guidance...