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...margin against withdrawal was roughly the same as the one piled up by San Francisco voters last month. In ivied wards around Harvard and M.I.T., one of the nation's strongest dovecotes, the vote was surprisingly close-4,108 to 3,134 for withdrawal; beyond Harvard Square, blue-collar areas were heavily against a pullout...
...small businessmen and farmers, can go on working as long as they want. Far different is the situation of countless men at all levels in business and industry. On an arbitrary date, the executive who yesterday was worth $200,000 a year is worth nothing but his pension. The blue-collar worker may begin to draw social security, but it is not enough to live on; if he works part time and earns from $1,500 to $2,700 a year, he is docked 500 of social security for every dollar he earns. Above $2,700 he is "taxed...
Franks & a Pint. Gary enjoyed no such amity. The city of 178,000 on Lake Michigan has two major industries, steel and Democratic politics, whose byproducts are wide-open vice and only slightly less tangible corruption. The population is mostly blue-collar. The majority of whites remain close in custom and outlook to their foreign origins and suspicious of the Negroes, who make up 55% of the population; many of them have arrived from the South since World War II. The city boasts 54 foreign-language groups, and in the 1964 presidential primary, the white vote went overwhelmingly to George...
...Democrats, who received less than fervent cooperation from Big Labor in the 1966 elections, owed last week's big-city victories in some degree to the union vote. Whatever the reasons-unprecedented wage levels, blue-collar support for the war, or resentment of Republican cutbacks in spending for the cities-labor voted with a cohesion unsurpassed since the Kennedy-Nixon, election of 1960. Key fronts...
Owing to the rise of service industries alongside production firms, the number of white-collar employees has long since topped the number of blue-collar workers. Well over 60% of all non-farm families own the homes they live in; in 1917, the figure was 40%. Almost 80% of U.S. families now own an automobile, and one in five families has at least two; in 1917 only 5% had a car. Only 1% of U.S. farms was electrified in 1917; today more than 99% of farms and all other homes have Edison's bulb, not to mention Sarnoff...