Word: machinistic
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...Real Majority, that was to underscore President Nixon's 1970 strategy. The typical American voter, the authors argued, could be found at the political center. They sketched a portrait: "The Middle Voter is a 47-year-old housewife from the outskirts of Dayton whose husband is a machinist." Scammon and Wattenberg did not have a real person in mind, but a Dayton newspaper and the local machinists' union decided that she was Mrs. Bette Lowrey of suburban Fairborn. In an article about her in LIFE, she declared herself deeply troubled about drugs, violence and other "social issues...
...bitterness between the two major groups is deeprooted. Complained a Chinese businessman: "The Malays have got to learn to work too. We pay a machinist his salary one day and the next day he doesn't show up for work. Then the government won't let us sack him." A leading Malay politician had a different story: "With the Chinese, every form of business, from hawking fruits to multimillion-dollar construction work, is monopolized by them. Not even the crumbs are left to others...
...Stairs. SoHo's smaller lofts (2,100 to 2,500 sq. ft.) are just right for artists doing large-scale works in new industrial materials. And the continuing presence of workmen and small manufacturers encourages a rewarding combination of art and industry. Says Jewelry Maker Gale Picard: "The machinist across the street comes over to give us advice. The neighborhood carpenters and mechanics are all very helpful in working out artistic problems...
...sons, brothers, and husbands of the working class that are dying to "fulfill our commitment." and the explanations are wearing thin. The animosity many workers direct towards students proceeds not from rabid anti-Communism, but from the perception of students as, in the words of a St. Paul machinist at the Cleveland conference, "a bunch of rich kids with long hair who say 'I will be your leader.' When asked what the students could do to close the gap. the man replied with more cogency than any speaker at the conference could muster. "Well." he said, "if you guys...
...people who make up the statistics. If unemployment continues long enough, it can often lead to the loss of one's home or car, to the unpleasant need of relocating in another part of the country, or to personal discouragement. The effects on three typical families: THE MACHINIST. In Seattle, where widespread unemployment creates a here-today, gone-tomorrow mood, the current definition of an optimist is a Boeing worker who brings his lunch to the job. One man who can appreciate that grim joke is Vern Higgins, 44, a precision machinist at Boeing until last month, when...