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...fascinating - but ultimately horrifying-attempt to get inside the hardhat skull, with an emphatic performance by Peter Boyle...
...first to recognize such trends. Son of an Armenian immigrant who was converted to Mormonism ("I'll bet I'm the only Armenian Mormon you ever met"), Gagosian literally helped pour the foundation of the nation's motel industry. In a 20-year career as a hardhat construction worker and later as vice president in charge of construction for TraveLodge Corp., he helped build more than 300 motels. He tired of duplicating TraveLodge's basic pattern, and in 1965 assembled three fellow employees and $50,000 to build his own motels. All four founders have since...
...page was the news that Brother James had won; a picture of the new Senator Buckley beside Nelson Rockefeller asserted that Rocky "glided in on Buckley's coattails." Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Edmund Muskie were defeated, and victory conferred on but one Democrat-Boston's hardhat champion, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks...
Blue collar anger has burst out this year in the worst epidemic of strikes since just after World War II, and in the form of hardhat riots in New York City, St. Louis and elsewhere. This year postal employees have gone on strike for the first time in history, city workers have stomped off the job in Cincinnati, and tugboat crewmen and gravediggers have struck in New York. Municipal employees in San Francisco and Atlanta, rubber workers in Akron, and teamsters across the country?all have walked out. In this year's first nine months, the U.S. lost 41.5 million...
Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support?promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...