Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority." He had the best organization in the state and expended $650,000 and 20 days of personal campaigning-more than the investment in money and time of the other candidates combined. Nonetheless, he failed to expand his support much beyond his solid core of Jewish and blue-collar voters in the New York City area. He lost most of the black districts, the suburbs and upstate New York to Udall and Carter. More than ever, Jackson knows that he must do well in Pennsylvania. He has budgeted $350,000 for the state, about $100,000 more than either...
...Georgian's staff, meanwhile, dismisses Humphrey by claiming that it is Jimmy, not Hubert, who has updated the old Roosevelt coalition with an unbeatable combination of blacks, blue-collar "ethnics," white-collar suburbanites, liberals and conservatives. Boasts Carter of his appeal: "It is just like Bobby Kennedy's." But Carter has not yet demonstrated that he can win in a northern industrial state against his major rivals, Jackson and Udall. His chance comes next week in Wisconsin and New York. The situation in both states was fluid, but the races shaped up last week as follows...
...Palme's Social Democratic Party to build popularity in an election year. The Social Democrats only barely prevailed in the 1973 elections, and Palme faces another severe test at the polls in September. In a cunning bid to woo the country's 3 million blue-and white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners were allowed to stop contributing to health insurance and pension plans. As a result, their average tax bite has been...
Containment, which aims to protect the community and the individual's right not to be assaulted by offensive material, was the idea behind the combat zone of Boston, and many other communities now want the same thing?in effect, red light districts for porn. In Seattle's blue-collar Greenwood section, residents are picketing a new porn theater, the neighborhood's second. Says a spokesman: "We aren't interested in censorship but in zoning to keep pornographic films to a certain area...
...housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...