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...Bethany Hays, 32, typifies the new style. At home in Houston, she changes the diapers of her infant son Josh. It is a kind of busman's holiday. Hays is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of its lactation clinic. On a typical night call at the clinic, she delivers as many as four new arrivals. She and Husband Ray, 38, a psychologist, have successfully blended hectic careers and child care by unrelenting planning. When she began her residency seven years ago, Hays was already mentally preparing for her first...
...journalist, writing books is very much a busman's holiday. In recent months several TIME staff members have devoted vacations, weekends, evenings and sometimes leaves of absence to completing books...
Seated among the few morning spectators in the London law court was a tall, familiar American figure. As the head of a select group of U.S. jurists observing British justice at work during a two-week Anglo-American exchange program, Chief Justice Warren Burger was on a busman's holiday. On a London street a senior British official was pleased to find Burger sufficiently briefed to congratulate him on a very recent appointment. The official, in turn, offered his congratulations to Burger as just about the only man in Washington who had not lost his job in the past...
...version of antiwar cliches too feeble for use in the novel. While the production is securely mounted by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, student actors are scarcely in evidence except as bit players. The professional credentials of the leading performers suggest that Yale is becoming a theatrical busman's holiday from off-Broadway...
...some of his operations. There will also be trips to Brussels to see Marie Liliane, Princess de Réthy, for whose charitable organization DeBakey operates on many Belgian children, and to Paris to see the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Later come a week in Israel and a busman's holiday in Athens, with DeBakey demonstrating surgery while a guest of Queen Mother Frederika...