Word: blue-collar
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...attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
...made 19th century immigrants feel that a trade was vaguely unAmerican. The fact is that modern technology has done away with many of the most menial tasks and thereby created millions of jobs for such skilled workers as laboratory technicians, draftsmen and electronics specialists. In the most specialized fields, blue-collar workers actually earn more than their white-collar counterparts. Yet once a student forgoes college hopes to enter a vocational program, he runs the risk of fading into instant obsolescence...
...winner over Humphrey in Illinois, he does not have the horsepower needed to pull enough downstate Republicans to offset the Democratic stronghold of Cook County. A tendency to vote against incumbents could reverse the trend, however, and give the state to Nixon. Ohio's big cities are heavily blue-collar, and though labor's votes are growing less predictable, they should give the edge to the Democrats. As in Illinois, many G.O.P. officials in Ohio prefer Rockefeller as a man who could cut sharply into the Democratic hold on the cities. THE SOUTH: Nixon, Naturally With 145 electoral...
...Dick Nixon's pollster, Joe Bachelder, reported that Oregon primary voters were worried about education, public works and inflation-and Nixon quickly stressed those issues. Pollster John F. Kraft warned Robert Kennedy before the Indiana primary that he had the Negro vote sewed up but faced trouble from blue-collar whites; Kennedy shifted his campaign emphasis from help for the poor to law and order...
...women classified as professional and technical has dropped from 45% in 1940 to 37% today because G.I. Bill-educated ex-servicemen have moved into these fields in larger numbers. Women as a percentage of the total work force, in the same period, increased from 26% to 36% as more blue-collar women moved into the jobs such men might have held. Determined women are still finding new opportunities. Since women buy 45% of the liquor purchased in the U.S., Schenley Industries Inc. last fall hired blonde Marsha Lane, 39, for the newly created executive position of "women's marketing...