Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents go off to work on farms for six months to three years or more. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a party member's willingness to "integrate" himself with the masses by doing manual labor became a test of his ideological purity. Professors, government bureaucrats and white-collar workers all spent time, often punitive, in what came to be called "May Seventh schools," combination collective farms and political-indoctrination workshops that took their name from Mao's letter of May 7, 1966 to Lin Piao, then Minister of Defense. In the letter, Mao declared that "every field...
...tighten your belt, turn up your collar," the veteran hobo tells the kid, "and you can be emperor of the North Pole." The kid, called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), is a blowhard spoiling to be top bum in the territory. He keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...
Died. Fred Lazarus Jr., 88, retailing wizard who started as a collar salesman in his family's Columbus store and became organizer and, in 1945, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., a coast-to-coast retailing combine that now includes Bloomingdale's of New York, Filene's of Boston, Bullock's of California, and the original F. & R. Lazarus store in Columbus; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...
With a zeal that recalls some of the excesses of the Red Guards of China's Cultural Revolution, student committees have fired ideologically errant professors, and white-collar workers have searched their bosses' desks for pornography. The walls of buildings all over Tripoli sport huge cartoons, which serve as the popular primers of the revolution. One depicts two citizens opening up the cranium of a sleeping bureaucrat and complaining: "The revolution has not yet entered into his head...
...California coast in the mostly blue-collar city of Oakland, incumbent Mayor John H. Reading, 55, won re-election by nearly 2 to 1 over Black Panther Party Co-Founder Bobby Scale, 36. Although Scale ran as a Democrat and had dropped the rhetoric of the Panthers to campaign on bread-and-butter issues, his reputation as a revolutionary lingered. Reading, mayor since 1966, asserts that he won because "my programs were best for the city...