Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight-page Day will serve a community that Field executives think is an ideal testing ground. The population of Arlington Heights has quadrupled in the past 15 years to 44,100, four times the average rate of increase in Chicago's suburbs. Almost half its largely white-collar families earn an income of more than $10,000; retail trade has increased 206% from 1954 to 1963. "A dynamic and expanding community needs a daily voice," says Day Editor and Publisher John Stanton, 56, who moved over from managing editor of Field's Chicago Daily News...
...White-Collar Aspirations. Unionleaders lay the blame on the paucity of Qualified Negro applicants, point out that a good skilled worker today may be as skilled as many laboratory technicians of 25 years ago. "When we find a Negro with the basic educational qualifications," says John Cinquemani, executive secretary of the Los Angeles Building Construction Trades Council, "he tends to look down on these fields and tries for a white-collar...
...prosperity has brought greater opportunity. Blue-collar workers are finding it easier to improve themselves and are forming the beginnings of a mass middle class. They are more acquisitive, not only because they can afford to buy more but also because more can be bought and more easily. The installment plan, introduced eight years ago and now a national institution, has put gas stoves, electric refrigerators and washing machines-now mass produced in Spanish factories-within the range of most city dwellers, and 40% of Spanish families now own a television...
...winner, Broadway's Barbra Streisand, who showed up in eighth place,* "she would have thought it was a grocery store in Brooklyn." Nor had Barbra (TIME cover, April 10, 1964) got there by the Bendel route; she designs her own clothes-a golden sable coat with a middy collar, a green brocade suit of the same material as her bedroom walls and, for accessories, old beaded bags with real jewel clasps and new shoes with old buckles. The Couture Group liked it, cited her "extraordinary individuality and infallible fashion instinct." Sighed Barbra. "Now life will be so much less...
...there was no doubt of Shelepin's chilly reception when his jet touched down at Peking airport en route to Hanoi for a "technical stopover." An unsmiling Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten on the plane, so generalities were exchanged about the weather, and the Ilyushin winged aloft a scant 50 minutes after landing...