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Labor leaders, professors, and students met for five hours in the Faculty Club last night to lay the foundations for a possible alliance of the academic and blue-collar worlds...
COMPARED with his blue-collar counterparts in the West, the Japanese worker is underpaid and overworked. Still he seems surprisingly contented with his lot. Rarely does the Japanese factory hand walk out on a long and costly strike. His energetic work habits are reflected in his country's productivity, which has been rising at an annual rate of 11.8%, helping to make Japan the world's fastest-growing industrial power. More and more Western businessmen are beginning to envy the tranquil relationship between Japanese labor and management...
Herschel Bernardi is another talent entombed in a seemingly moribund CBS property. Arnie, as his series is titled, has a possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
...makes its appeal with the tactics of commercial advertising-with spots of less than 60 seconds on shows calculated to have the right viewers for the pitch. In New Jersey, where Republican Nelson Gross is running for the Senate, his managers know that he has a problem with blue-collar votes. They are considering placing his ads on broadcasts of Yankee games...
Club Klan. Few of the segregation academies charge less than $40 a month tuition, and only a handful of blue-collar whites can afford such fees. As a result they feel that they are being deserted by their wealthier neighbors. Greenville Lawyer J. Wesley Watkins III believes that their resentment is justified. "The poor white people have been listening to the leadership all these years, and were told to cool it," he says. "Now the 'country-club klan,' as we call them, have pulled out on the poor whites and run for the private schools...