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Deep Discontent. The impact of steadily soaring prices of rice and grain, India's staples, as well as those of vegetables, eggs and cooking oil, is felt hardest by the urban dwellers, who make up 18% of the population. A man and his wife, both employees of the Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher...
...Impact in Suburbia. The revolution has been a long time brewing. As Cornell Political Scientist Andrew Hacker puts it: "The new conservatism is the result of the democratic process itself; the widening of new opportunities for millions of Americans who have risen to a better location in life and who at all cost want to ensure that they remain there." Accordingly, many Goldwater admirers are middle-class "haves"-a fact that was obvious in the crowds of well-dressed, well-behaved men and matrons who showed up at receptions for their man all over San Francisco...
...impact of the revolution is most obvious in the burgeoning suburbs of the South and the West that are luring the skilled technicians and the professional men, many of them from farms and from low-income families that traditionally voted Democratic...
...appeals court decision was likely to have an impact in many another state, and it was certain to desegregate the jury-picking system all over Georgia, as the state's courts hastened to obey an old mandate freshly spelled out. "It would be prohibitive from a financial standpoint not to," says Judge Nichols. "Their decisions would be reversed, and have to be reheard, every time." That was just what happened in Sumter County, where Civil Rights Worker Ralph Allen will almost certainly be tried again-this time by a legally correct jury...
...brief four weeks of his campaign, Scranton had covered some 20,000 miles, visited 25 states-including a second trip last week to Illinois, where he boarded a five-car Illinois Central Railroad train for an old-fashioned whistle-stop tour through cornfield country. But he made no notable impact, and in Springfield, Mayor Nelson Howarth sadly summed up the situation when he said to the Governor...