Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shacks and tenements and 8,300,000 "deteriorating houses," where the poor often pay a higher rental per square foot than the middle classes do. Health is also a poverty problem. The poor suffer mental illness at a sinister rate, triple that of the middle and upper classes, according to an investigation in New Haven, Conn. Mostly because of its poor, the U.S. has a lower life-expectancy rate than Holland, Sweden, Israel and Great Britain...
...changed her accent, remember?). Daisy discovers that Mark has fallen for her 18th century model and runs away in tears of frustration. Mark catches her at the airport where she miraculously reintegrates the various centuries of her personality. Thus elegant professional man transforms pretty girl from lower to upper class. We've grown accustomed to the plot...
ADOLF SCHERBAUM (Deutsche Grammophon) is the world's foremost master of the baroque trumpet, an instrument without valves (which were not added until the 19th century). On this record he presents music by Vivaldi, Torelli, Telemann, Graupner and Fasch. Clearly conversant with the horn's volatile upper register, Scherbaum sends silver runs and trills echoing through imagined medieval castles or floating above mirrored lakes at dawn...
...Down through history, the upper class has been entertained [Aug. 27] by clowns, buffoons and sideshows, so nothing has really changed...
...Signed a bill authorizing a 72,000-acre national recreation area on the upper Delaware River in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, within two hours' driving time of the 30 million Americans who live in the Philadelphia-New York conurbation...