Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measured by occupations on a scale devised by Anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner of Michigan State University. The categories are: families of professional people and owners of large businesses, semi-professionals and lesser officials, clerks and kindred white-collar people, skilled workers, semiskilled workers, unskilled workers, odd-job workers. For their survey, Drs. Salber and MacMahon lumped the bottom three groups together...
Little Diamond Things. Gloria rarely takes any designer's ideas without insisting on changes. She will have Balenciaga take off a button here and there, change the collar, or even have him run up something out of a skirt from this dress, the neckline from that, the sleeves from another...
...appears, however, its future possibilities look better because of the quick profit-and-loss reflexes of President Lynn Townsend, 42-a cool, no-nonsense executive who took over from the flamboyant Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert. Last year, while he was still administrative vice president, Townsend fired 7,000 white-collar employees and sold off a clutch of Chrysler plants and office buildings in an effort to bring the company's overhead into line with its present share of the auto market...
...become gentlemen, this country is dead," says Nigerian Schoolmaster Tai Solarin. As founder of the Mayflower School in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, he is dedicated to destroying the educated Nigerian's British-bred notion that the ideal product of education is a black gentleman in a white collar...
...automation did for production workers in 1961 was to abolish much of the dirty and drudge work-the tedious, boring jobs that proliferated after Henry Ford's assembly lines in 1913 began to replace craftsmanship with mass assembly. In steel mills and chemical plants, yesterday's blue-collar worker now wears white overalls, sits at a pushbutton panel as massive as a cathedral organ, and takes home a technician's fat pay envelope. What computers did for clerks was to eliminate the menial paper shuffling, permitting people to spend their energies on more creative and profitable work...