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...Lackawanna center functions as a touchstone for 3,000 former Bethlehem employees, and is preparing for 3,100 more who will go on layoff before the year is out. So far, most of the people using the center are foremen or white-collar professionals, those least accustomed to periodic layoffs. The Steelworkers union, still angry at Bethlehem's action, has been slow to embrace the program, finding it unsuitable for its members who, as one union man said, "have jobs, not careers...
Some officials at both the company and the agency were afraid that the floppy character was not in keeping with IBM's starched white-collar image. The question of whether the Tramp represented antitechnology sentiment, as epitomized in the most famous scene from one of Chaplin's best-known movies, Modern Times, was also raised. In the scene, Chaplin gets caught in the giant gears of a factory. But both the agency and IBM eventually concluded that the character, in Pankenier's words, "stands fear of technology on its head and would help the PC open...
Replacing the working-class families are the more transient paraprofessionals and other white-collar workers employed in metropolitan Boston. "Their political interests tend to be a lot different than families," says Foster. But city pols are unwilling to speculate about just what that change means...
...power of the newly arrived paraprofessionals centers specifically on those who own condominiums. In 1970, no condos were counted in the census, the 1980 results indicate 2191 such units 10 years later. Some are occupied by tenants who purchased their apartments as condos; others are rented by the new white-collar crowd. But together they represent almost enough votes to elect a city councilor (2504 votes was enough...
Truesdell was part of a campaign last November that demonstrated the strength of the new white-collar residents. As campaign manager for Peter A. Vellucci--the mayor's son--he helped engineer the newcomer's election as a state representative for the 29th Middlesex district, ousting 18-year incumbent Michael J. Lombardi, who based his re-election bid on an Independent-like platform of strong neighborhood organization and constituent service...