Word: well-to-do
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...industry had written it off. Cavett, who had been pressing too hard for laughs in the first months of the show, finally relaxed and hit his stride. Sponsors came aboard. The A.C. Nielsen Co. ratings were still disappointing, but surveys showed that Cavett viewers tended to be relatively well-to-do urbanites, and thus attractive to advertisers...
...pushed too hard," says Vincent DePaul Draddy, president of David Crystal, Inc. "The mini crept up over a period of years. The midi should now creep down over a number of years." It well may. Around the saltwater pool at Harbor Beach, Mich., a resort frequented by well-to-do Detroiters and St. Louisans, a group of women took a pledge this summer to use pantsuits to tide them over the midi indecision. Many women elsewhere apparently feel the same way. Across the country, pants sales are up, and midi sales have not moved much...
Most of the well-to-do women flocking to the private hospitals, where an abortion costs at least $500, have been out-of-towners. A disproportionate number of abortion seekers since July 1 have been, inevitably, those who were pregnant well before that date and are now crowding the legal deadline of 24 weeks of pregnancy. This situation will largely resolve itself by the passage of time and a growing awareness, especially among the poor, that they should seek help early. At the 15 municipal hospitals, which are now doing 120 abortions a day, there have been relatively few black...
...Passport. The prep schools' competition is improving, and some of it is free. Suburban public high schools, especially in well-to-do areas that many potential boarding-school students call home, are now often on an academic par with boarding schools. For this reason, and because the admission policies of colleges have changed, a boarding-school diploma is no longer pursued simply as an Ivy League passport...
...charity. He could afford to. His other purses, plus endorsements, will bring his income close to $375,000 this year. But money is the least of it-or so he insists. Unlike most racers, Merckx did not take up the sport to escape from poverty. The son of a well-to-do Brussels grocer, Eddy says simply: "I pedal because I love to ride a bike." He was barely 19 in 1964, when he won the world amateur championship. After turning pro, he won his first big race, the Milan-San Remo in 1966. The following year, he became world...