Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from London and her near fatal battle with double pneumonia, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 29, headed west for "a few months in the sun." Her left leg-much punctured from intravenous feedings, blood transfusions and antibiotic injections-was swathed in bandages, her tracheotomy wound covered by a high collar. Stoicized Liz: "I'll have my necklaces redesigned a little higher to cover up the scar-sort of diamond and pearl Band-Aids...
William McChesney Martin Jr.. chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, argued that the current unemployment in the U.S. is largely "structural," resulting from technological shifts rather than from recession, and concentrated among "the semiskilled and the unskilled" in the special areas of "farming, mining, transportation and the blue-collar crafts and trades in manufacturing industries." Dealing with structural unemployment, said Martin, requires programs that "take into account the who, the where and the why of unemployment," such as training unemployed workers to do other kinds of work. "Attempts to reduce structural unemployment by massive monetary and fiscal stimulation...
...auto transmissions and normally Muncie's No. 1 employer, has laid off one-third of its boom-time payroll of 4,500. Many of the city's foundries and tool and die shops that supply the automakers are at least partly shut down. Merchants dependent on blue-collar trade are faring badly; a credit jeweler complains that he marked $30 watches down to $14.95 and still nobody buys. A low-price furniture dealer groans that he is averaging one customer...
...obstacle to all training programs is the prevailing view among parents that a blue-collar technician has a less desirable job than a white-collar worker, even if he earns more money. Industry has done little to counteract this...
...Since last October, cadres (party functionaries) and white-collar workers by the tens of millions have found themselves reassigned to work on the land. Picks and shovels on their shoulders, professors lead their students, officers their men, bureaucrats their bookkeepers-all of them on the march to lend a hand, physically, on the 'production front...