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...reasons unknown, blacks smoke more than whites and blue-collar workers more than white-collar workers...
...rate of crime. In San Francisco, for example, the rate of arrest and conviction is only 50%. Part of the reason it is not higher is that the FBI, which once gloried in stopping John Dillinger and Willie Sutton, is now turning its attention toward the bigger-money white-collar crimes, such as embezzlement and bribery. "We have not been able to maintain our bank-robbery enforcement at previous levels," admits an FBI spokesman...
Office workers, who sit at desks in pleasant buildings, may stay on in larger numbers, but not all that much larger. Less than 15% of Du Pont's employees, both blue-collar and whitecollar, elect to keep working until they reach 65. Says Employee Benefits Manager Leonard J. Bardsley: "This trend continued through 1978 even when they knew of the change in the law." Pitney-Bowes, Inc., abolished mandatory retirement last April 1. Since then, 105 of its workers have retired on or before their 65th birthday, and only ten have chosen to keep working more than...
...normal retirement age. Their attitude may change as the new law stays on the books. If inflation rages on, many more people may choose to keep working after 65 because they fear their pensions will be inadequate. At San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., which employs white-collar people almost exclusively, a startling 70% of those approaching 65 have chosen to keep working, largely because they are apprehensive about the economy's future. Bechtel's experience is an anomaly, but it may become less rare in an inflationary age. At present, however, any extra cost to business...
Interstate 90 is a city-parting swath through the west side of Cleveland that permits white-collar suburbanites to move easily downtown to work. It was the Monday after Cleveland had become the first major U.S. city since the Depression to default on its debts, and I was on the road, driving downtown to buy concert tickets...