Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGovern candidacy has already split the Democrats so badly that they are now in some ways two different parties-the McGovernites and the regulars. The McGovern forces -the young, the suburbanites, the intellectuals, an admixture of some blacks and blue-collar workers-are parvenus to the old party, a new political wave bred in complicated ways by Viet Nam, the assassinations, all the dislocations of the '60s. The others-labor, organization Democrats like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, elected politicians -tend to have older and firmer roots in the party's traditional structure...
...Amateur. In the U.S., Polaroid has upgraded many employees by setting up a unique apprentice system, in which blue-collar workers are assigned to become aides to experienced researchers. "In about two years we find that these people have become almost a Pygmalion problem," says Land. "They have become creative." Indeed, Land believes that almost anything can be accomplished, including the remaking of people. In his drive for breakthroughs, scientific and social, he is always experimenting. While visiting London two years ago, he startled his driver by exclaiming: "Did you know that I am an addict? I am addicted...
...Wisk detergent, in which a parrot shrieks "Ring around the collar!" at a guilt-ridden hausfrau who neglected to Wisk...
...missing freshmen, the total enrollment figure is still growing, owing to the new popularity of two-year public colleges and graduate schools.* There is also a marked increase in the number of part-time students. While middle-class students are dropping out, or "stopping out," of college, blue-collar and minority students, who see education as their best means of access to the middle class, are taking their places. The number of Chicanes attending college increased by 19.1% last year, and blacks by 17.2% (although enrollment in black-studies courses fell by 8%). Women's enrollment rose...
...congregation sang was well known to the famous American guest: What a Friend We Have in Jesus. After his Moscow summit talks, President Nixon made a bit more history by attending services in the capital city's only major Baptist church. More than 1,000 worshipers, mostly blue-collar workers, crammed into the hall, and not only because Nixon was on hand. The church is packed every Sunday at each of three lengthy, enthusiastic services. On this occasion the brief sermon by Ilia Ivanov, chairman of the All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians and Baptists, was based on Paul...