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...affluence is shaping a new class. Today only one man in three has the same social status his father held; only one in every four sons of unskilled workers is himself unskilled. "Many manual workers," reports a Labor Ministry survey -on spending, "have habits and tastes which formerly were regarded as middle class." But Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig, researching a study of "The Worker in an Affluent Society," found that the new-habits and tastes are largely material. The working class is spending little of its new income on intellectual self-improvement. About 60% neither knew nor cared about Karl Marx...
...tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary to teach him a manual trade...
...Communist at all). As a former member of the Kuomintang, he was accused of joining the Communist Party only out of opportunism. Condemned to a period of intensive reindoctrination, Peng recanted, asked for the opportunity to rehabilitate himself by working as an ordinary peasant. Mao benevolently excused him from manual labor, exiled him to obscurity as a superintendent of a commune...
...Richard Loderhose. Manhattan glue magnate, who bought the four-manual, 21-rank Wurlitzer studio organ from the Paramount Theater building on Times Square, erected a 1,846-sq.-ft. outbuilding for it behind his suburban home. Since then, he has added 15 ranks of pipes, is currently wiring-in the giant five-manual Kimball organ console from the late lamented Roxy Theater in Manhattan. Says Loderhose: "If worse comes to worst, we can always live...
...Mightiest of all Wurlitzers: Radio City Music Hall's 58-rank monster with twin four-manual consoles, still in constant use after 30 years of intermissions...