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...about sex crimes against innocent people. In later books the victims are as villainous as the killer. In Murder at the Savoy (1971), a tycoon is shot during an after-dinner speech, his death mask etched in mashed potatoes. He turns out to have been a major white-collar crook with, among other things, a far-flung gunrunning empire. The eponymous Abominable Man is, of all things, a police superintendent. After someone slices the man in half with a bayonet, Beck compiles an appalling dossier of his brutalities. Many instances are easily available in the Ombudsman's files...
...Italian Communist Party is a mass party, as distinguished from some Communist parties based on cadres or militants. We have a membership of nearly 1.7 million. More than half are workers from industry and agriculture, but we also have white-collar members, artisans, intellectuals, doctors, teachers, working women and housewives-the working people hi the broadest sense...
Fifteen per cent of the Harvard class of 1975 are alumni sons, and 12 per cent of the Radcliffe class are alumni daughters. Twenty per cent of the fathers of the Harvard class of 1975 received no college education. Sixty-three per cent are professionals 19 per cent are white-collar workers and 11 per cent are blue-collar workers. Thirty-five fathers are listed under the category of "writer, artist, musician...
...race now is to prevent even a minor recurrence of such a tragedy. But in a place where the basic elected salary is $42,500 and the average white-collar Government worker gets a secure $16,000 a year, and millions of dollars can be manipulated for "comfort," the sense of urgency sometimes lags...
...national unemployment rate, these figures seem low. But while total unemployment between December 1973 and December 1974 rose by 48%, from 4.4 million to 6.5 million, unemployment among managers and administrators jumped by 85%, from 125,000 to 231,000. That was a sharper increase than for any other white-collar occupational group...