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From his father, young Bob acquired much more than his tolerance of conservatism. Philip Coles has had a lifelong interest in people different from himself. Though Jewish, he once lived in a Benedictine monastery, and though well educated, he lived for a time among London workingmen. "In a sense, he was a social observer," Robert Coles says. On long walks with Bob, "he'd point out things about the world and about various neighborhoods, and he'd ask, what are people's whole lives like...
...Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, pointed to perhaps the greatest disparity possible in a period of incomes policy. Says he: "Sure, I've got a few shares of stock myself. But it's wrong as hell to have fortunes made by speculators on the stock market while workingmen's wages stand frozen...
...interviews, confining himself to a relatively few people whose trust he slowly gains, and whose small devices for enduring life decently, no matter what, he deeply admires. In this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...
...Communist menace and heavily politicized by the civil rights struggles of the '60s and by the Viet Nam War. The result, according to Dutton, will be an infusion into the political process comparable to that of the Western settlers in the age of Jackson or of urban workingmen under the New Deal...
...tighter credit, higher indirect taxes and restricted federal spending, and is taking a firm stand against union demands. Still, inflation is expected to stay about the same as last year's 8%. The anti-inflationary policies have hurt small wage earners and great companies alike. Twenty-three workingmen in the mountain village of Stora Blasjon, some without work for the past two years, went on a hunger strike last month before the government finally gave them jobs on a road-building project. The government and private sources recently had to rescue the super-modernized Götaverken shipyards because...