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Best of all are the sympathetic insights into the personal problems of a reasonably steady, square-shooting, white-collar criminal (Lee Marvin). The night before the big job the poor fellow cannot sleep. Of course he is afraid, but he is also anxious to impress the boss (Stephen McNally) and get ahead in the underworld. He paces the floor in his hotel room until all hours, sniffing wretchedly at his "Benny" inhaler. This reminds him of a former wife, a party named Parmalee. Few marriages can have suffered so implacable a description as he gives that one, in seven well...
...India. Village development itself, of course, is already a chief part in the Indian government's plan for coming abreast of the twentieth century, but the university student has had a hard time fitting into programs of village health, irrigation, or literacy. All too often, traditional desire for a white-collar job and his own economic poverty have led him to lose contact with the soil and trouble of village life and to veer toward the political left. The proposed Mutual Service Program would put responsibility squarely on two hundred students at Delhi and provide them with enough money...
...white-collar worker who's never ben further away than New York reads American literature he missed in business school next to an Indian student who has studied all over the world and now wants to enhance his knowledge of Americana...
...Communists had lost ground especially among Andhra's farmers, tenants and literate white-collar workers, who had once been disposed to support them. "I was attracted to Communism," said Krishna Rao, a bank clerk, "because the Reds supported our wage demands and condemned bankers. I participated in meetings where people shouted 'Death to Capitalists,' but I was shocked when I found out that my own household help was shouting 'Death to Exploiters of Toiling Domestic Servants...
...next president of the united labor movement, announced, "I will be very happy to step down as president of the C.I.O. and support the leadership of George Meany." For himself, Meany proclaimed new drives in the future to "organize the unorganized," especially in stores, service trades and white-collar work...