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West Germany's 6,400,000-member Trade Union Federation has made a turn toward the right with the election of free-enterprising Ludwig Rosenberg, 59, as chairman. Unlike his up-from-the-factory colleagues, Rosenberg is a lifelong white-collar worker who became a union organizer more out of intellectual conviction than economic necessity, fled the Third Reich in 1933 and later helped the British Ministry of Labor find wartime jobs for thousands of refugees from Hitler. Returning to Germany, he concluded that free competition would best invigorate the West German economy, became foreign affairs chief...
...delegates packed into the pier pavilion, the great majority come from Britain's "new middle class," an expanding tier that reaches from skilled workers to professional and managerial classes. It is this segment of society that has been hardest hit by the Conservative government's white-collar wage restraints-the "pay pause"-while staunchly resisting the Labor Party's archaic doctrines and chronic schisms. Though they have made dramatic gains in by-elections during the past year, the Liberals have been dismissed as a party of protest that is still in search of its real identity. Damned...
...Free Body Culture; today there are some 50,000, as well as several hundred thousand freelance cultists who loll in the buff on the 80 officially sanctioned nudist beaches specially set aside for them by the West German government. Of the organized German nudists, most are laborers, tradesmen and white-collar workers. But not all. Clad only in signet ring and cigar, some of Germany's richest and most famed industrialists also frolic in the buff at exclusive North Sea beaches. What they all have in common, explains an earnest West German sociologist, is a need to escape from...
...ranty on '63 motors and drive mechanisms. Says a top Chrysler man: "Three years ago we would have gone broke paying claims on this kind of warranty." With the backing of Chairman George Love, 61, who supervises policy while Townsend directs operations, Townsend has chopped Chrysler's white-collar staff by one third (7,000). closed obsoles cent plants, consolidated divisions. This brought the company's "break-even" point so low that Chrysler, despite its poor sales, earned $12 million in 1962's first half...
...Sixth Republic may give better social opportunities to white-collar workers and professional people, thus encouraging them to get back into politics and "reconstruct the government...