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Died. Harold Lloyd, 77, comedian whose screen image of horn-rimmed incompetence made him Hollywood's highest-paid star in the 1920s; of cancer; in Hollywood. He usually played a feckless Mr. Average who triumphed over misfortune. "My character represented the white-collar middle class that felt frustrated but was always fighting to overcome its shortcomings," he once explained. Lloyd usually did his own stunt work, as in Safety Last (1923), in which he dangled from a clock high above the street; he was protected only by a wooden platform two floors below...
...bargaining agency, Avtalsverket, ordered the lockouts in hopes of draining the unions' tills as fast as possible and forcing them back to the bargaining table. Significantly, blue-collar unions have not walked out, though their average annual wage ($4,900) is less than half that of the striking white-collar workers ($10,200). Palme, committed to what he calls "increased equality" in Sweden, has promised legislation that will close the broad gap in job security, vacations, pensions and working conditions. To narrow the difference in wages, the dynamic young (44) Prime Minister has suggested that the biggest increases should...
...think economics has much to do with it. The intangibles have at least as much weight." Among the intangibles that corporations cite: rising crime, transportation snarls, the fact that young people are not as attracted to New York as they once were, and the difficulty in recruiting well-educated white-collar workers from the city's schools...
...despite the political gains, despite the black push into white-collar jobs, despite more black visibility on television, despite those blacks who have moved onto the boards of major corporations, not enough has been achieved. Beneath the surface seethe continued frustration, withdrawal, anger and alienation, even disgust with the very system blacks are trying to use to their advantage ("It takes your soul and it gives you a color TV set in return"). Educated black men and women may indeed never have had a better opportunity to get a piece of the action, but poverty, despair, hopelessness still haunt...
GOVERNMENT and private studies predict that white-collar jobs will occupy more than half the U.S. labor force by 1980, compared with just over a third in 1950 and 43% in 1960. Among the 15 million new jobs expected to become available in the present decade, about a third will call for professional or technical skills. Because of increasing mechanization, the number of agricultural workers will decline 21%, leaving only 2.7% of the labor force on the farm...