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...street, and police understand that women are just as likely to be pushers or bombers. Dances haven't required that one partner lead the other for years, anyway. Chivalry will transfer itself to those who need it, or deserve respect: old people, admired people, anyone with an armload of packages. Women with normal work identities will be less likely to attach their whole sense of self to youth and appearance; thus there will be fewer nervous breakdowns when the first wrinkles appear. Lighting cigarettes and other treasured niceties will become gestures of mutual affection. "I like to be helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WOMEN WIN | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...Alfred drive home. On the way she stopped several places, but the hogans were dark and the hearths cold. In a canyon by moonlight she gathered a handful of moose moss and an armload of wija grass. Not a feast, but enough for the likes of Sam. He banged away at 'La Primavera' while she cooked Keeble meatballs with garlic and moss. Delicious AND good for your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...slapped "Extra Value" labels on its Tide detergent, and Oxydol soap powder dutifully cut its prices by 20%. Lever followed with its Square Deal Surf, also selling for 20% less than the old stuff. Early reports had British housewives snapping up the cut-price products by the armload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Lowering the Suds | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

Under Robert Finch's direction, an obviously dedicated cast makes The Crucible superior to most House productions. It shares many of the common faults of House shows: the props are conspicuously modern, the written affidavits invariably blank sheets of typing paper; Reverend Hale enters the Paris house with an armload of books fresh from Widener Library with the little white stickers on the bindings to prove...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The Crucible | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...were stuck at the Coop yesterday with an armload of books and no sales tax exemption forms, it was probably because you missed the box in yesterday's paper. So we're giving you another chance. Go to your Senior Tutor (or Dean if you are a freshman or Cliffie) and obtain ST8 tax exemption forms. Then go to the bookstore. Or you will be paying 3 per cent sales tax on every book you buy. And don't say we didn't warn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Chance | 9/27/1966 | See Source »

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