Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daley quickly denounced the plan, thereby placating blue-collar whites who were seething over the prospect of low-income (i.e., black) housing in their neighborhoods. The plan was at fault, said the mayor, for failing to locate some of the projects in the suburbs. Crying "race politics," Friedman charged that Daley had "suppressed" the part of the authority's report that called for 500 suburban housing sites...
...local Lock heed plant is one of spacious melancholy, like the first-class ballroom on the Ti tanic after most of the passengers had jumped ship. At nearby Mountain View, apartment owners are offering $50 to tenants who find friends to fill the va cancies. As jobless blue-collar workers and engineers have used up their un employment benefits, the rolls of food-stamp recipients in San Jose, Calif., have grown from 9,000 to 37,000 in the past year. Unemployment in the Se attle area is now 13.1%. Hundreds of workers dismissed by United Aircraft have left Hartford...
After a costly ten-week strike last fall, the United Auto Workers won an immediate 13% wage increase from General Motors and then turned on Chrysler, which yielded similar raises, including a 13% pay boost for several thousand white-collar workers...
...hypothesis has it that today's middle-and upper-middle-class youth are romantically willing themselves into an underclass, thus perhaps opening opportunities for the rising and ambitious children of blue-collar workers. Anyone who reads the latest report of Harvard College's Office for Graduate and Career Plans must at least entertain the possibility...
Died. Harold Lloyd, 77, comedian whose screen image of horn-rimmed incompetence made him Hollywood's highest-paid star in the 1920s; of cancer; in Hollywood. He usually played a feckless Mr. Average who triumphed over misfortune. "My character represented the white-collar middle class that felt frustrated but was always fighting to overcome its shortcomings," he once explained. Lloyd usually did his own stunt work, as in Safety Last (1923), in which he dangled from a clock high above the street; he was protected only by a wooden platform two floors below...