Word: whitecollar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow shuck his identification with the Administration. In Arizona, Goldwater's presence on the ticket as a senatorial candidate should help Nixon overcome an overwhelmingly Democratic edge in voter registration. Nixon won Washington in 1960, and should do so again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely to pocket that state's electoral votes. With Rockefeller on the Republican ticket, a tide of pro-Wallace protest voters could give Arizona and Utah, and possibly others, to the Democrats...
...Fanfani is shrewd, not simpatico; behind his back, critics call him and his aides i bassotti (the dachshunds). More than Fanfani's looks and cold political style are against him. A 6% jump in living costs last year touched off a prolonged wave of strikes by industrial and whitecollar workers; fortnight ago, 5,000,000 workers quit their jobs in a one-day general walkout. Fanfani's year-old partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), has sharply divided the Premier's own Christian Democratic Party...
...feel very strongly about wealthy people. Most of the really responsible millionaires have been brought up to know what money can do for people. They have also been brought up to work. I doubt if many so-called "whitecollar workers" put in half as many hours a day as does Mr. Rockefeller...