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...Egyptians to the Nixon trip. Though at the start of his assignment he was unceremoniously evicted from his quarters at the Nile Hilton to make room for "the likes of Dean Fischer," and had to take up temporary residence on a Nile riverboat, his experiences quickly took an upward turn. "In the little town of Kafr az Zayyat," Wynn writes, "the crowd dragged me up to the front row to stand beside the mayor as the presidential train roared past. Later, villagers-all total strangers but understanding that I was an American-insisted on pumping my hand and begged...
...heeled, well housed, and well educated as their white counterparts. Many have just arrived in the middle class, some are barely hanging on, some may lose their grip-but by any reasonable measurement, most appear there to stay. They have shown that, reports of its demise to the contrary, upward mobility still operates in America...
...would qualify as being middle class, as compared with nearly 50% of whites. Critics also argued that income gains were partly illusory because black families are more dependent than white families on the earnings of wives. But Eli Ginzberg, professor of economics at Columbia University, is persuaded that the upward trend in black earning power is "unequivocal. People can draw their lines wherever they want...
...just over half of all blacks were below the poverty line; the figure declined to about one-third of all blacks in 1969 and has hovered there ever since. In 1972, 33% of America's black families fell below the poverty line. (The current poverty line, recently revised upward from $4,275 due to a rise in the consumer price index, is an income of $4,500 for a nonfarm family of four.) Inflation has hurt the black poor particularly cruelly because they have to spend a larger percentage of their income for food and shelter than middle-income...
...Kama Sutra. Al though the form is that of classical dance, the positions are not. They are an exploration of every inch of space on the stage and around the dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe l'oeil convex forms. The two couples slide through a visual glissando of sexual exercises so explicit yet so subtle in execution that...