Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely are the Middle Americans? Columnist Joseph Kraft gave the term currency in late 1967. They make up the core of the group that Richard Nixon now invokes as the "forgotten Americans" or "the Great Silent Majority," though Middle Americans themselves may not be a majority of the U.S. All Americans doubtless share some Middle American beliefs, and many Middle Americans would disagree among themselves on some issues. The lower middle class, including blue-collar workers, service employees and farm workers, numbers some 40 million. Many of the nation's 20 million elderly citizens, frequently living on fixed incomes...
...Middle Americans tend to be grouped in the nation's heartland more than on its coasts. But they live in Queens, N.Y., and Van Nuys, Calif., as well as in Skokie and Chillicothe. They tend toward the middle-aged and the middlebrow. They are defined as much by what they are not as by what they are. As a rule, they are not the poor or the rich. Still, many wealthy business executives are Middle Americans. H. Ross Perot, the Texas millionaire who organized a group called "United We Stand Inc." to support the President...
...ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence...
...STAN KING, the oldest and most contemplative of the group, had abandoned his plans to study engineering at the University of Arizona in order to enlist with his former high school friends. A 6 ft. 4 in., three-sport letterman, he told his mother of his feelings just before going to Viet Nam. "We were up practically all night," Mrs. Glenn King recalls. "He had his grave all picked out in Clifton Cemetery. He loved that place and those beautiful red hills...
Agnew's departure was not without the flourish of controversy that has become his signature. He personally picked an unusually small group of reporters to make the trip, and thus provoked another run-in with the press. Among the 34 publications that applied for space and were rejected were several that invariably cover such state trips: the Washington Post, TIME, the Ridder newspapers and the Baltimore Sun, Agnew's hometown paper. When the Sun complained, Agnew's press secretary Herbert Thompson replied: "To be quite honest, he doesn't like the Sun. He feels...