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Inasmuch as this average TIME-reading woman is married (76% are), her daytime hours are spent largely at home. She does her own housework (although 33% have part-or full-time help), takes an active part in church and civic affairs, bought four new dresses or suits last year (almost all of them tailored to the "new look") without much help from her husband - although 13% said he was there when the purchases were made. She has nine pairs of shoes, five hats, and four pieces of jewelry which she values...
Just 50 years ago, while cannon boomed and church bells rang, an 18-year-old girl with a sweet and melancholy face walked across the ancient square to Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk.* A purple mantle was on her shoulders, a diadem in her hair. She was Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange, about to become Queen of The Netherlands...
Next day the Pacific National Exhibition held its bathing beauty contest in Vancouver. Of 14 entrants, only three were Roman Catholics. The winner: Brunette Margaret Brain, 17, a Protestant (Church of England) from Prince Rupert...
This parody of the old tearjerker, Mother Machree, just about expresses one Briton's opinion of socialized medicine. Quoted by the Anglican Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt, it appeared last week in Sarum Messenger, a church publication. With increasing government interest in the individual's health "from sewerage to the new National Health Service," said the bishop, the government has become a sort of "foster mother" for the whole population. Though he likes some things about womb-to-tomb medical care at government expense, he said, it has lessened individual responsibility...
...fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average Western citizen of a real grasp of the situation . . . [Communism represents] much of the social impetus of the living church from the Apostolic age down through the days of monastic orders to the Reformation and liberal humanism...