Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What to do? Other mayors might have applied for state or federal aid and filled out forms until their streets were as buried as those of Pompeii-or garbage-strewn New York (see page 16). But not Kit Irby, 58. Taking broom and shovel into her own hands, she has set out to clean up the streets of Cheney ("A Community with Pride") in time for the county fair on July 31. Numerous citizens have joined in, many of them teenagers, but none has matched the mayor's daily dedication...
...SEXES: Help with the Mop and Broom Many husbands are now assuming their share of domestic duties, greatly easing the burden for 34.5 million women who choose to remain in the home. Some innovative families have even formalized housework and child-care arrangements into "marriage contracts." Paternity leaves (unpaid leaves of absence granted by the New York City Board of Education, the University of Michigan and other employers) now mean that some wives no longer have the sole responsibility for the care of their newborn babies. At the same time, an Internal Revenue Service ruling that permits parents to deduct...
...work of art," he says, and it is an affair that is being threatened. The Photography department has to share exhibition, storage and study space with the Prints department, which has resulted in over-crowded facilities for both. And though the Indian-Islamic collection "just moved out of the broom closet in January," according to Cary Welch, lecturer in Fine Arts, it will take three years for most of its important holdings to get out on display...
...remained on the tower as the sole Bulldog victory of the day. But just before the Radcliffe squad departed. Sacks symbolically painted that over also, in addition to hoisting a broom on a Yale flagpole to signify a clean sweep. It was clear to all who was in fact number...
...campaigned with a broom, and now he is using it vigorously. An amiable 200-pounder who looks like a plodder but who moves fast when he has to, Boren, 33, put the Governor's airplane up for sale, trimmed the size of his executive staff, refused to take a $7,500 salary increase (from his current $35,000) and persuaded other officials to give up their legislated raises. Boren also demanded and got bills requiring tougher prosecution of fathers who desert their families and compelling welfare mothers to register for work. He is taking the novel step of making...