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TABLE 1 Nonwhites Employment Situation in 1965 (numbers in thousands) Nonwhite Employed Persons Nonwhite as % Occupation Group # % of total All employed persons 7,750 100.0 10.7 White-collar workers 1,510 19.5 4.7 Professional & technical workers 530 6.8 5.9 Managers, officials & proprietors 200 2.6 2.8 Clerical 630 8.2 5.7 Sales 150 1.9 3.1 Blue-collar workers 3,160 40.7 11.9 Craftsmen & foremen 520 6.7 5.6 Operatives 1,650 21.3 12.3 Laborers, excluding farm & mine 990 12.7 25.6 Service workers 2,450 31.7 26.3 Private household 980 12.7 43.6 Other 1,470 19.0 20.8 Farm workers 630 8.1 14.7 Farmers & farm...
...DuBay, 31, the angry curate who in 1964 called on the Pope to remove Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal McIntyre (DuBay felt the cardinal was not sufficiently active in civil rights drives). Transferred five times and finally suspended from curate duties in Santa Monica after he advocated a white-collar labor union for priests (TIME, March 4), DuBay hardly boosted his case with the hierarchy by sharply criticizing it in his recently published book, The Human Church (Doubleday, $4.50). Among his many radical suggestions: priests and bishops should be elected by their parishioners, and parochial schools should be abandoned...
...locale to which the girls-all brunettes-were bussed home daily from South Chicago Community Hospital appeared ideally suited for a dormitory. Known as Jeffery Manor, it is a pleasant, white-collar neighborhood of small apartments, neat homes, frolicking children and Dairy Queen stands, well removed from the city's roiling slums-and with one of its lowest crime rates. As one resident put it, "It's the kind of neighborhood where you can walk your dog after midnight...
...world's worst chronic inflation are scarcely felt. Most families can grow enough food to get along and often have enough left over to barter for clothes and even bicycles. In the cities, life for most is not so easy. The monthly wage of an average white-collar worker would barely buy a round of drinks in the Hotel Indonesia bar. To make ends meet, city dwellers have invented a sort of guerrilla economy. Almost everyone has a racket...
...university diploma, as every Soviet schoolboy knows, is an essential passport to a white-collar job and ultimate success. Inevitably, the competition for college has led to a displeasing amount of corruption. This spring, reported Komsomolskaya Pravda, 32 students were expelled from the Armenian state university in Erivan when authorities discovered that they had gained their admission through political influence and faked records, and had not passed a single entrance test...