Word: blue-collar
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...suits, white shirts and club ties-got a credibility rating of 81%; this year the figure plummeted to 57%. Meanwhile, the mod suit with wide lapels and nipped waist worn over a pastel-patterned shirt zoomed upward in credibility from 28% to 63%. Interestingly, those polled were traditionally conservative blue-collar workers earning less than $15,000 a year...
More than a hundred miles to the west of Cambridge, the three selectmen in Monterey, Mass. (pop. 600), a largely blue-collar community, voted unanimously to urge their legislators in Washington to move for impeachment proceedings. Says Selectman John S. Pizzichemi: "We may be a tiny town, but that doesn't mean that when we have strong feelings, we shouldn't show them." In Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District, the only one in the state to support Nixon in the 1972 election, Democratic Congressman Gerry E. Studds says that his mail is running...
...Judge Charles A. Stanziale Jr. Rodino served for two years as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Nationality, and has been a staunch proponent of immigration reforms. He has also supported bills that would restrict employment of illegal aliens, who frequently are in competition for jobs with blue-collar workers in his district...
Godwin, campaigning on a theme of traditional conservative "stability," attacked Howell as a tool of labor union bosses, a supporter of massive busing, and a McGovern sympathizer. Howell, espousing a new "responsiveness" in government, apparently failed in his neopopulist attempt for a coalition of liberals, blacks, and blue-collar workers...
...student apathy certainly cannot be wholly explained in terms of hostility from the community. The Grass Roots Organization (GRO), which consists of people interested in basic structural change in Cambridge government, is sponsoring a slate of seven candidates who support programs for more blue-collar jobs, neighborhood control of police, and low-income housing projects. But this program, which is similar to that offered by the Berkeley radicals in 1971, has attracted little student interest. Saundra Graham, the only incumbent among the seven GRO candidates, says that student reaction to her campaign has been minimal. "The students are simply unaware...