Word: collar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood to help, with the movie version of her bestsellingVeport on sex in the white-collar jungle, The Best of Everything (TIME, Sept. 15), 26-year-old Author Rona Jaffe mused about the ashen taste of success. "You dream all your life of being famous," she told New York Herald Tribune Reporter Joe Hyams, "because you think it will solve all your problems. What happens is you meet a lot of fascinating men, as you hoped you would, but just as many of them are married as the dull men you knew when you were obscure...
...many dealer orders now as a year ago, Buick three times as many, and Plymouth is up 16%. But there are still not enough cars to meet demand and get a true picture of the market. Last week, to make matters worse, a five-day walkout of white-collar workers at Chrysler Corp. forced a 63% slash in output, and Rambler stopped production after the Budd plant at Gary, Ind., makers of Rambler underbodies, went on strike...
...dream of most wives of white-collar workers is to save 1,000,000 yen ($2,778). "Even while she's brewing green tea or boiling rice," says an awed banker, "today's Japanese housewife is calculating risks and interest rates." Her children are not far behind. Saving against the day when they too will buy stocks as mamma does, schoolchildren savers have an average $4.93 put away in 27,000 school banks, with total deposits of $43.8 million...
...Madam," said I looking at the dog, "It has a collar. It belongs to someone. It it probably quite tame...
...probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...