Word: blue-collar
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...becomes one of the country's most powerful labor leaders. Dubuque has the ambience of an industrial town of the 1930s. Another production, The Betsy, about infighting in the auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...
...verge of a racial explosion," declares the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Operation PUSH is pushing for better education. "Busing means the destruction of our neighborhoods, and we're going to fight for our survival," replies Housewife Connie Schaefer, president of the Bogan community council, which represents the largely blue-collar Bogan-Marquette Park areas, one of the last all-white enclaves on Chicago's Southwest Side...
...rarely failed to point out the mistakes of those above him. CBS tolerated him, but did not like him. He never got the inflated title he might have expected ?senior or executive vice president?and he was not on the limousine list. Says a friend: "Freddie's a blue-collar worker ?he actually reads scripts and watches shows?and he doesn't do things in the white-collar...
Family shows While The Waltons (CBS) fight off rural poverty in the South, The Fitzpatricks will soon battle the blue-collar blues up North. But not for long, most likely. The new CBS series about a struggling steelworker and his family looks like dim competition against ABC's Happy Days...
With that, attention shifted to a very different kind of conflict in the attractive, ordinarily tranquil Marquette Park area. Surrounding the park is a blue-collar ethnic neighborhood (Polish, Irish, Lithuanian) of shaded streets, neatly trimmed lawns and well-maintained bungalows, one of the last white enclaves in the city. Not coincidentally, it is also the site of the headquarters of Collin's Nazi party. Last summer, during a civil rights march there, 16 citizens and 16 police were injured in the ensuing riot. Lately crowds of up to 1,500 beer-swigging white youths have swarmed around...