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...never have been a Galileo of the social firmament, but as a journalist Vance Packard is clear-eyed enough to have seen, before anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that...
...months of this year. It has laid off 2,800 employees, or 3% of its work force. The price of its stock has plunged 50%, from $150 to $75. TI's once dominant share of the calculator market is being squeezed on the high-priced end by Hewlett-Packard, while the Japanese have cornered sales of economy models. Its attempt to break into the home-computer business has been disastrous. As for digital watches, TI was unable to match the Japanese marketing blitz and abandoned the field altogether...
Sarah Small, a chaplain at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, runs Packard-Manse House in Roxbury. The old green house, once elegant, could use a paint job and a good cleaning. Small's haven for the homeless now gives food to anyone who needs it. Every week, several churches send food to "Aunt Sarah," which gets sorted into shopping bags. Poor people drop by when they can, to take a bag or two. The list of takers grows every week...
Across the street from Packard-Manse stands what used to be Roxbury High School. It was closed in June, so it hasn't been vandalized. Yet. Most students who used to go there take a bus every morning to a chilly reception at Charlestown High. The dropout rate for Roxbury youth was high when a local school was convenient; it will almost surely go up now. With luck, the dropouts may find unskilled work. Rallies, meetings and court-proceedings against the government did not change the budgetary facts. A number of schools were closed, and nearly one out of every...
...moment she seems not at all the assertive Hepburn the press portrays her as--the one you see marching around the House floor, but rather like a grandmother. Only her pipe adulterates the image. She likes to reminesce, for instance, about the good old days when the family Packard was the big thing, or the time she hitchhiked through Texas...