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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same people who have been in control for most of the past 50 years. In the absence of a one-term limitation on Representatives and Senators, who are more concerned with their perpetuation in office than with the public good, the best thing we could do would be to clean house in Washington at every election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Covey, Henry Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catch a Falling Snowflake | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

What Liverpudlians got for their generosity is no mere ostentatious pile of stone. The cathedral's clean, neo-Gothic lines and interior have already been widely praised; Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, a connoisseur of architecture, pronounced it "one of great buildings of the world." Yet its architect, a Roman Catholic named Giles Scott, was a 22-year-old unknown when he chosen from among 102 competitors in 1903. Later Scott go on to design London's Waterloo Bridge and the massive Battersea power station, and to rebuild the bomb-gutted House of Commons after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A Masterpiece for Merseyside | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...domestic worker as a poor, ill-educated woman is slowly changing, as students, artists, writers and housewives adopt household work as a flexible form of employment. Their families are not always pleased. "My aunt babbles on about my editing and my traveling, but she never mentions my cleaning," says one part-time editor. After quitting a managerial job at Joseph Magnin, Taryn Stenman, 22, worked as a maid for six months and found that she made so many connections as a result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People can use this type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Upstairs, Downstairs Revisited | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...clients. Although Broom Hilda charges customers $6 an hour and pays its workers only $3, it supplies all necessary equipment, handles Social Security forms and offers insurance benefits. Other services, like Mini Maid in Atlanta, send out crews of three or four women who for $25 to $28 can clean a two-bedroom house in 20 to 25 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Upstairs, Downstairs Revisited | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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