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...White House brides took husbands who were mature, professionally established, wealthy, patrician, or all four.* By contrast, Pat, 23, has a modest background and an uncharted future. His parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, have lived for 25 years in a small orange bungalow with fake-brick siding in a blue-collar Waukegan neighborhood. Gerard Nugent, district sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar and prep schools and then to Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated with...
Unworried Neighbors. Why had Jenny not sought help for her sister? Only 15 herself, and crippled from polio, she explained that she was "scared," that Mrs. Baniszewski "kept beating me." What about the neighbors? Incredibly enough, few if any of the adults in the blue-collar district knew or cared what was going...
...Beatles and roller skating, Sylvia was nicknamed Cookie and described by a girl friend as "a sweet nut." With her few possessions - her most treasured was a jewelry box in which she kept two favorite pins -Sylvia moved into Mrs. B.'s rundown house in an Indianapolis blue-collar neighborhood...
Recruiting, selection, and training have been rethought and changed in the past year. The Corps will seek out the activist on campus, go to the unions for blue-collar workers, to 4-H clubs for future farmers. It will try to establish a year-round interest in the Corps on the campuses by sponsoring seminars to be attended by returned volunteers and recruiting professors to serve as advisors overseas during sabbaticals. Starting with about one third of this summer's programs, the Corps will get rid of lectures and role learning in training. It will try to prepare Volunteers...
...prosperity has brought greater opportunity. Blue-collar workers are finding it easier to improve themselves and are forming the beginnings of a mass middle class. They are more acquisitive, not only because they can afford to buy more but also because more can be bought and more easily. The installment plan, introduced eight years ago and now a national institution, has put gas stoves, electric refrigerators and washing machines-now mass produced in Spanish factories-within the range of most city dwellers, and 40% of Spanish families now own a television...