Word: well-to-do
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...Your cover picture "The Two Americas" shows the bias of your journalism. The pictures inside President Nixon's outline on the cover show Wall Street, China and the happy well-to-do. Senator McGovern's outline shows war. hopeless-looking minorities and the poor...
...with the individual judge's attitude than with the offender's background. Without any formal standards to guide them, judges fell back on their instincts, experience or prejudices. In practice what has happened, in case after case, is that the poor got longer sentences than the well-to-do, nonwhites longer than whites, and the street thief who steals a few dollars longer than the white-collar thief who steals thousands...
...additions up Brattle Street, and one of the few redeeming features of the new-look Square. Brattlewalk, succumbed to pressure from edgy merchants last Spring. The area from the Mass. Ave. Gulf station to Inman Square has been razed, raked and remodeled, ousting the small merchant to accommodate the well...
...course, the only topic of conversation. There is always the question of the winds for tomorrow's sailing, or the prospects confronting George McGovern, or the latest gossip about who misbehaved after too many vodkas and tonic. But sooner or later, among the gatherings of the well-to-do and fashionable on the Massachusetts resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket,* the talk is likely to turn into bitter arguments over this summer's No. 1 question: Should the Federal Government move in and take charge of preserving the islands...
...much of its 125-year history, the Herald was the bible of Boston's Brahmins. Among the well-to-do, you weren't really married until the Herald took note, and you never advertised anywhere else to sell a house worth six figures. Its veteran news staff is still often the best in town on fast-breaking stories. But news is handled without much imagination, and the Herald lags far behind the Globe in investigative reporting, in spotting new styles and trends, in arguing topical issues...