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...People's Party and the Socialist Party, like two polite, equally weighted cousins on an inert seesaw. So scrupulously balanced is the coalition and the Proporz system of dividing up the jobs that, according to Viennese table talk, if there is one People's Party Putz-frau (charwoman) in a government building, there must be a Socialist Putzfrau too. After last November's elections, balance became stalemate; the two big parties have been haggling over a Cabinet ever since...
...truck was heard at about 3 a.m. as it pulled away from the scene; but police were still looking for the truck itself. The museum's semiofficial watchman had spent the night with a sick relative. Local police were snugly in bed until the next morning, when Charwoman Incarnation Olivares arrived, took one look at the bare walls, shrieked: "Mon Dieu, they have pulled off the museum...
...expect to see masters") to ask how things were going. Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire two more charwomen to assist the one already employed. "'Three charwomen!" cried Tony. "Why, when I was in digs in Liverpool, Cronin, one charwoman did all the work." Cronin responded icily: "I venture to say, sir, that a royal residence is somewhat different from . . . 'digs' in Liverpool...
...their second haul, department men arrested an artist named Valerian losifovitch Labzin in the act of turning over two heavy foot lockers to a charwoman on a platform in the Kursk railway station just before a train to the Urals pulled out. Inside the boxes were 1,000 small icons, 1,000 prayer leaflets, and 2,400 little crosses on chains, which the charwoman was to have taken with her to the Caucasus. Artist Labzin turned out to be a hardened criminal in Soviet eyes; he had two previous convictions for "underground printing of religious literature,'' which...
...most unusual of the guests are those invited by the groom. For the first time in history a charwoman has been asked to a royal wedding: she is 50-year-old Betty Peabody of Trollope Street, who looked after Tony for three years in his Pimlico apartment. His other guests range from a bus driver and the postmistress of the Welsh village of Bontnewydd, near his father's home, to such stage celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Leslie Caron, Sir Michael Redgrave and Emlyn Williams. Marlene Dietrich was invited but, like all the crowned heads of Europe except Queen Ingrid...