Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose small devices for enduring life decently, no matter what, he deeply admires. In this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...
...move into cheap clapboard weekly rentals around gloomy Garvey Avenue, then land a job in one of the little machine shops. They stay a month or a year: some schools report a 100% annual student turnover. "I don't live here, I exist," says Earl Vetter, 43, a machinist recently arrived from the East. "As soon as I find something I can afford, I'm getting...
...major issues of the day, but any candidate who is perceived as purely a liberal or purely a conservative is relatively weak. Furthermore, the majority that resides in the center is "unyoung, unpoor, and unblack." The typical American voter is "the forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in suburban Dayton, Ohio." Her major concern is what the authors call the Social Issue, "a set of public attitudes concerning the more frightening aspects of social change": crime, race riots, campus unrest, pornography, and moral permissiveness. But-and this is where the Administration misread the book...
...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...