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Suffering Status. Most serious by far, some 1,000 unionized junior bank clerks decided that their "status" was suffering when compared with that of other Irish white-collar workers. So they too went on strike, demanding a 7% pay raise over the present top level of $1,881.60 a year. The result was devastating: in all, ten commercial banking institutions run about 900 main banks and branches; all these were forced to shut down. That left fewer than 40 branches-including two run by New York's First National City Bank and by the Bank of Nova Scotia-still...
Putts on the Carpet. The Toledo-born son of a white-collar employee of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Saxon once studied for the Catholic priesthood but switched, first to economics and later to law, in which he earned a degree at Georgetown University ('50) while working for the Treasury Department. In 1952, he became assistant to Stephen A. Mitchell, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He spent the eight Eisenhower years as assistant general counsel for the American Bankers Association and later as an attorney for First National Bank of Chicago. President Kennedy named him comptroller...
Ignorant Texans are the targets, and Scenarist Hellman blows the lid off a snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame...
...newspaper, the eight-page Day will serve a community that Field executives think is an ideal testing ground. The population of Arlington Heights has quadrupled in the past 15 years to 44,100, four times the average rate of increase in Chicago's suburbs. Almost half its largely white-collar families earn an income of more than $10,000; retail trade has increased 206% from 1954 to 1963. "A dynamic and expanding community needs a daily voice," says Day Editor and Publisher John Stanton, 56, who moved over from managing editor of Field's Chicago Daily News...
...White-Collar Aspirations. Unionleaders lay the blame on the paucity of Qualified Negro applicants, point out that a good skilled worker today may be as skilled as many laboratory technicians of 25 years ago. "When we find a Negro with the basic educational qualifications," says John Cinquemani, executive secretary of the Los Angeles Building Construction Trades Council, "he tends to look down on these fields and tries for a white-collar...