Word: workingman
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Foreigners had hinted it, and unreconstructed Tories had grumbled it from the upholstered safety of their clubs. But Dodds's timetable was the first to dramatize what many a Briton has long suspected-that the British workingman, lulled by the padded security of his welfare state, no longer works as hard as he might. That the charge came from a Socialist made it all the more emphatic...
...rising 30% a year for the last three years. Coffee is almost unobtainable. Hardships are greatest in the cities, where a laborer must work three days to buy a pair of shoes, and a tourist at the bar of the new Istanbul Hilton Hotel pays six liras-almost a workingman's entire one-day pay-for a martini...
Cars & Calories. No one knows why. Some brewers say that they themselves have brought on the slump in beer by preaching moderation. Others feel that it is the natural result of changes in U.S. living habits. Once, the saloon was the workingman's club, where he put away large quantities of the poor man's drink. But now, with more people making more money than ever in history, the workingman is much less inclined to idle over a glass of suds. He has too many other things to occupy his leisure hours: auto trips, sports, do-it-yourself...
...Witcutt, son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor, was studying law at Birmingham University when the attraction of G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of "Distributism" led him to Rome. Distributists took one look at the misery of the workingman and concluded that large-scale industry should be abolished in favor of a social-industrial structure more like that of the Middle Ages...
...result, Italy's Communists have been steadily losing ground in their attempts to win over the workingman. In some two dozen northern industrial plants, union control has passed out of Communist hands. Last week at Falck Steel's Milan .plants, the Reds were decisively beaten again in plant elections, saw their vote plummet from 72% last year to a minority...