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...show him trailing Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, Nixon stands at least an even chance of winning on Election Day. Of course, the conduct of the campaign itself and the effectiveness of the candidates on television could change the outcome. Moreover, this conclusion is based on several premises, none of which may be entirely safe. Among them are the assumptions that Humphrey will be Nixon's opponent, that the Paris peace talks will not have made dramatic progress, which could boost Humphrey's prospects, and that ghetto unrest will not flare into disastrous rioting. Given these qualifications...
...become a centimillionaire at 37. But let me allay your anxieties at once. Being very rich is mostly what raucous people call a gas. C. Wright Mills, one of the egghead sociologists, was near the mark when he said: "If the rich are not happy, it is because none of us is happy." Sophie Tucker got it right the first time. "I've been rich and I've been poor," she said. "Rich is better...
...inestimable advantage of our multiple residences is that it is so easy to be not at home. Privacy is probably the most valuable thing that money can buy; the poor have practically none, and the privacy of the middle class is eroding rapidly. Only the very rich can afford it in these days of high-speed communication and whetted curiosity, and it is perhaps no coincidence that two of the world's richest men J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes, with close to $1.5 billion apiece are notably fanatic about their privacy...
George Dandin, is the decorous tale of a wealthy farmer who is all but cuckolded and constantly humiliated by his upper-class minx of a wife. The only novelty provided in its performance is an acting style that is resolutely anti-psychological. Each role is lustrously burnished; none is probed. No transistorized translation is offered with these plays, and to those who lack French, the language may sound like an LP record played at 78 r.p.m...
...them virtual fiefdoms whose executives receive from headquarters little more than general guidelines. "It's almost like a businessman going to his banker," says one company official. As if to emphasize their autonomy, Jewel's latest annual report contains photographs of 55 such middle-range executives-but none of either Chairman Clements or President Perkins...