Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About half of the weekend canvassers were with us that day in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights. At the briefing session that morning in the neighborhood campaign headquarters, we had been given the necessary politico-socio-economic background, in order to know what to expect...
...Center's upper floor, finished only hours before the dedication, includes three common rooms, a kitchen, and a bar. The lower floor, which will open within two months, consists of two 90 seat lecture halls. When complete, the Center will house all meetings and seminars for the Advanced Management participants...
...GAINS. Reaffirming an earlier vote, the committee repealed the 7% tax credit for business investment in machinery and equipment, but maintained the exemptions for the railroads and aircraft industry. Finally, it went beyond the Nixon Administration, but not as far as the House, in taxing the capital gains of upper-income taxpayers. Retaining the six-month period for which assets must be held to qualify for capital-gains exemptions, it denied the use of the 25% tax ceiling on such gains to people earning more than $10,000 in tax-preferred income...
...cases don't reach us. Planned Parenthood is a middle-class organization; the idea that someone will do an abortion for you legally is a middle-class idea." A visit to the PP office confirms this comment. The PP building stands isolated in a middle to upper class world. Across the street is Bonwit-Teller, adjacent is Brooks Brothers, in the neighborhood are Lord and Taylor, Peck and Peck and other unlikely hang-outs for those women who would be trapped by the abortion laws...
...most part, the CCA candidates strong showing yesterday in this year's election seems due to the fact that three of them-Hayes. Mrs. Butler and Fantini-had strong bases of their own in addition to the upper-middle class and University-affiliated voters who normally form the backbone of the CCA's vote...