Word: white-collar
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...next time, then a Negro.") Khrushchev helps the Republicans, and so does the memory of Cabot Lodge just across the river at the U.N. (By contrast, Lyndon Johnson's name is conspicuously missing from Democratic buttons, posters.) Republicans also expect a lift from the large influx of white-collar conservatives to the bedroom suburbs. Kennedy ahead...
...route home from Moscow. The effect of this spreads all over the map. In Managua, Nicaragua, students rioted, burned the U.S. military attache's car, demanded that Roosevelt Avenue be renamed after Augusto Sandino, Yankee-hating Nicaraguan rebel of the '20s. In Ecuador, students and white-collar workers formed a Revolutionary Union of Ecuadorian Youth and donned Sierra Maestra-type khaki uniforms. In Bogota, rioting pro-Castro students burned Uncle Sam in effigy...
Heaviest defectors to the Democrats are farmers and white-collar workers. Asked which party best serves their interests, farmers chose...
...White-collar workers picked...
...Admiring liberty, they are humiliated by the servility of their Parliament; taught to respect honesty, they are disgusted by the pall of corruption that hangs over the Shah's court. Yet the intellectuals are responsible for part of Iran's plight: they want only the whitest of white-collar jobs and would rather be unemployed lawyers than hard-working engineers...