Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television ads, which get most of his campaign money, do, however, reflect an appeal for an end to lawlessness, including white-collar crime. In one he declares: "In New York State tonight, 14-year-old children are going to shoot heroin into their veins . . . some men are going to come home from work, their lungs poisoned by chemicals . . . people are going to sit down and write out checks for padded bills. All of these things are against...
...students who would have been flatly rejected under previous admission standards. One-third of the class is nonwhite, the biggest group of black and Puerto Rican freshmen in the U.S. The 9,000 include former laborers and domestics, cab drivers, carpenters and the sons and daughters of blue-collar workers. Many are the first in their families to enter college. They are awed-but all business. "These are the original American revolutionaries," says C.U.N.Y. Vice Chancellor Timothy Healy. "They want a piece of the action...
Labor leaders, professors, and students met for five hours in the Faculty Club last night to lay the foundations for a possible alliance of the academic and blue-collar worlds...
...real significance of the meeting was not the statement or any specific action taken. The point of the meeting, as Wald continually emphasized, was to show the American people, and the Administration in particular, that the intellectual and blue collar communities are not hostile groups...
...addition, David Garson, professor of Political Science at Tufts, suggested some specific ways in which academics might aid blue-collar workers. They could, he said...