Word: well-to-do
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Finsterwolde's Reds make life thoroughly uncomfortable for the big landowners. During the postwar housing shortage, the rich farmers agreed to share their homes with the homeless. But, the landowners later complained, the Red town council carefully picked the most "asocial needy" to move in on the well-to-do. Currently, the Reds are plugging to build a football stadium. It turns out that the Communists intend to build the stadium astride the fields of two of the biggest landowners...
Born in Dallas, the son of a well-to-do real-estate man, Rosenfield broke into the arts doing second-string reviews for the late Burns Mantle on the old New York Evening Mail, later worked as a press-agent (he once drove a covered wagon down Broadway to exploit a movie...
...rags, she was nonetheless alive. The doctor had taken Linda to her office, drugged her, left her tied up in an abandoned ranch house, while she herself spent the night some 70 miles away at Las Vegas. In the yellow convertible were two other notes addressed to other well-to-do Santa Fe parents, whose children Dr. Campbell apparently planned to kidnap if she had failed to snatch Linda...
Since its incorporation 25 years ago, the Toronto suburb of Forest Hill Village has grown into a typical, well-to-do community, with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...
Study or Serve. Under the plan, every student in the U.S. would take an aptitude test. In practice, if a high-school student scored in the upper 25%, he would get deferment and qualify to go on to college. To avoid favoring the sons of the well-to-do, the educators recommended that federal scholarships be provided for poor boys who qualified. In college, the student would have to keep his grades high each year, or the draft would...