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Selena was born in the blue-collar factory town of Lake Jackson, just south of Houston. After her father was laid off by Dow Chemical, the family moved to Corpus Christi and plunged into the music business. "We went to Corpus Christi to put food on the table when I was 6-1/2," Selena said in the Time interview. "We would play for family weddings. When I was eight I recorded my first song in Spanish, a country song. When I was nine we started a Tex-Mex band." She stuck with it, spending much of her time...
...clerical workers formed the firstwhite-collar union in the Ivy League after goingon strike. The Harvard Union of Clerical andTechnical Workers (HUCTW) was formed shortlyafter...
...Taylor married a construction worker, Roseanne wed a bodyguard, and Whoopi Goldberg united with a labor organizer. The magnetism of blue-collar guys for over-40 female stars was demonstrated yet again last week when GLENN CLOSE, 48, announced her engagement to STEVE BEERS, 39, the chief stage carpenter for Close's current Broadway vehicle, Sunset Boulevard. The two met when the show, in which an over-the-hill film queen ensnares a young screenwriter, was playing in Los Angeles. A date for the wedding (her third, his second) has not been...
...retire at what now seems to be an early age and collect pensions rather than pay taxes that might finance others' pensions for a vital five years or so. The counterargument, voiced by International United Mine Workers of America president Richard Trumka, among others, is that many blue-collar jobs are too physically demanding to be continued beyond, or even...
...back in Britain. Nick's immediate future is uncertain. Singapore has requested his extradition, and Leeson will no doubt contest any attempt to send him back to Asia. In addition to a German lawyer, Leeson has retained lawyers from Kingsley Napley, Britain's leading firm specializing in white-collar crime. Leeson, said Christopher Murray, his attorney at the firm, simply wanted to return to England "to put the record straight." Leeson's sister Sarah, 18, was emphatic. "One person can't lose all that money," she said. "They are playing on his background, making him a scapegoat because...