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Cash Shortage. The most serious crisis is a three-month strike for higher wages by 1,500 clerks on the Colombo docks, which has mushroomed into a sympathy walkout by more than 13,000 other white-collar workers. Warehouses bulge with millions of pounds of unsold rubber and tea. Many of the vast plantations cannot meet their weekly payrolls because they are short of cash. Foreign trade is at a virtual standstill. As the Cabinet leveled a back-to-work ultimatum at the strikers last week, Colombo buzzed with rumors that Mrs. Bandaranaike could only remain in office by declaring...
Higher Purpose. Nuñez' 45 salesmen are on the road five days a week to earn about $125 a month in commissions, an average salary for Buenos Aires white-collar workers. They use compelling means to part the country people-many of them prosperous from land and cattle-from their idle money. One that works best is flashing an early 100-peso bill bearing the signature of Eusebio Campos, a former Argentine Central Bank official. "That man," the salesman says, "is now one of our directors...
...Francisco, where Tidewater Oil took on a Negro for executive training. Even in the South, the job situation improved. Negroes began moving into professional positions in North Carolina's state government. Three Nashville banks agreed to hire Negroes in clerical positions, and some white-collar jobs opened in South Carolina...
...white families. Negroes still comprise but 3% of the nation's 180,000 college teachers, 2% of its 230,000 physicians, 1% each of its 215,000 lawyers, 2,560,000 salaried managers, 130,000 editors and reporters. But there are now some 35 Negro millionaires in the U.S. The percentage of Negro families earning $10,000 a year or more has gone from one-half of 1% a decade ago to 5% (the percentage of white families in that category has increased from 5% to 19%). More than 16% of nonwhites hold white-collar jobs, against less than...
Died. Jimmy Hatlo, 65, cartoonist, who for nearly 30 years skewered the foibles of white-collar America in his syndicated Hearst feature, "They'll Do It Every Time"; of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In Hatlo's mildly cynical humor, people typically said one thing while doing another-such as the lush who tumbled off the wagon on Jan. 2. And their names were in character: J. Pluvius Bigdome, president of Bilgewater Beverage; Tremblechin, his office stooge; and little Iodine, Tremblechin's daughter, who proved so antiseptic that she earned a strip...