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...anew, as he did in The Affluent Society, the question of priorities and how wealth is to be divided. Instead of working 40 hours a week in order to be able to buy the full panoply of gadgets he sees on TV, asks Galbraith, might not a man be happier working only 25 hours and giving up some of the goods for leisure time? According to Galbraith, he should, at any rate, be allowed to make the choice...
...nasty winter for Paris' most celebrated couturiers. Even André Courrèges, 44, had buyers at his latest showing sitting on their hands. But Courrèges is finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds...
...from the social fabric of America. The only other major expatriate movement that this country has witnessed began in the twenties with Malcolm Cowley and friends singing "Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" on the boat to Europe. They were back two years later no happier about the state of affairs in America but unable to live away from it. That avenue isn't open here...
...appears that operators of supersonic transports may have a happier choice. On the basis of preliminary experiments, two scientists at California's Northrop Corp. believe that the sonic boom may not after all be a necessary evil. Last week, at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerodynamicists Maurice Cahn and Gustav Andrew suggested that an electric field projected in front of a supersonic plane might eliminate the boom, and lessen drag as well...
...apologists carried their rationalization to astonishing lengths. Slavery might be intolerable for a white man, they admitted, but the black was different: his mental and neurological inferiority did not permit him to "suffer as a white man would have." Slavery, in the words of Boswell, was a "happier state of life" for "African Savages." To abolish it, he protested, would be the real crime-"robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects," meaning the slaveowners...