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...experiment ended, Krauss breathed more easily: "I still don't think keeping house for a family of four youngsters is particularly difficult. To me, the hardest part of being a mother is boredom. You wash the same dishes every day, fold the same clothes, dust the same bookcases and change the same diapers." A "Krauss hint" for an easier life: mothers in a neighborhood should pool their children so only one mother at a time need watch them. Another: tots should be parked in bigger backyard playpens and not be permitted to interrupt chores even when they start...
...days of his exile from the fold, nobody stomped on that "fascist dog" Tito with more enthusiasm than Hun gary's bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi. He eliminated his enemies (notably former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk) on the charge of "Titoism" and missed no opportunity for verbal abuse of Tito himself. Then Big Brother told all good Communists they had to be nice to errant Little Brother Tito-or else. It was Tito's turn, and he demanded Rakosi eat a full portion of crow, and be quick about...
...urged by her guardian into a marriage with a man she did not love. The groom was 21 years old, an aircraft worker named Jim Dougherty who is now a Los Angeles cop. They lived with his family for awhile, and then, she recalls, "in a little fold-up-bed place." In her despair, Norma Jeane made her first attempt-"not a very serious one"-at suicide. In 1943, after almost a year of such goings-on, Jim joined the Merchant Marine, and Norma Jeane went to work in a defense plant as a paint sprayer. That was that...
...Crimson was looking--but never too hopefully--for its first win after nine defeats Saturday; the pattern of past performances featuring a varsity defense holding tight for three, two, and then one period before crumpling into defeat. In Saturday's match History required the varsity either to fold in the first period or reverse the pattern and win. Tradition proved the stronger...
...Washington, where tourists were thick as the pink blossoms on the Japanese cherry trees last week, a shabby, middle-aged woman attracted no attention when she entered the line of sightseers winding through the White House one morning. Tucked under her arm was a folded newspaper; in the fold were three matchboxes, a crumpled packet of cellophane and paper napkins...