Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wallace looks good. His hair is mod-shaggy down to his collar, and he rubs in a little brown dye to cover up the graying streaks. He is fashionably dressed and sometimes downright dapper. With his new wife advising him, he has switched his wardrobe to double knits. "They are so easy to use when you are traveling," Cornelia says. "I am dressing better than I used to," admits Wallace. "Remember the last time I campaigned, my wife had just died. Governor Lurleen? And the trouble with campaigning by yourself is that clothes...
...that showed Muskie receiving 58% of the vote and McGovern 19%; it was never updated. Pat Caddell, the 22-year-old president of Cambridge Survey Research, in private polls for McGovern, gave Muskie 46% and McGovern 30%. Caddell did, however, advise correctly that McGovern could do well in blue-collar and middle-income areas by taking specific though not necessarily popular stands on issues. Overall, the polling in the nation's first primary was fairly accurate...
...year federal court action over charges by eight women inspectors of precision equipment-all with at least twelve years' seniority-that they had been passed over for advancement in favor of men with less time on the job and had been denied overtime opportunities. In blue-collar work, many unions agree to rules that screen out many women from certain job categories...
Riesman said that easy grading allows the affluent to maintain their status while it devalues the efforts of hard working students from blue-collar families. He foresaw this as a new source of conflict between the "already arrived" and the "upwardly mobile...
Under the Swedish system, workers with average incomes get the most value from their tax kronor. A typical example is Paul Lundmark, who is married and the father of three children, ages 4 to 10. He lives in Orebro, a city of 275,000. Lundmark earns an average blue-collar salary of $6,500 a year by working in a paper mill. He pays more than one-third of this, $2,300, in direct local and national income taxes...