Word: helper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asteroids are familiar ground for many fictional characters, including Antoine de Saint-Exupery's charming "Little Prince," who lives on asteroid B-612 and cleans out its two active volcanoes with a plumber's helper. But real-life spacemen have largely ignored the small, airless planets in their race to reach the moon and Mars...
...Slave at Home. A housewife who finally succeeds by some magic in finding a helper, be she live-in maid or day worker, may be surprised to discover that what passes for a domestic has undergone a vast change. Most of today's domestics are as militant as union members in their demands, which may range from a TV set of their own (practically a necessity for live-ins) to use of the family car on their days off. Frequently, they rule out whole areas of household work. Moreover, those who are willing to be maids and general houseworkers...
...servants' complaint that families often expect them to do too much for the money they get and the hours they put in. As they see it, the wealthy families of years past treated their household help with courtesy and respect, and frequently had more than one helper to do all the work now required of one. Many middle-class American women, whose husbands' careers have raised them a few rungs on the social ladder, can hardly wait to get someone to be a slave at home-at the lowest possible salary, of course. Such women often make unreasonable...
...squalor, few slum dwellers would return to the farm. Back home in Chile's Andean highlands Alberto Paredes, 26. earned 25? a day working on a hacienda "with only the wind and the animals." Today in Santiago he makes $1.50 a day as a construction helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made of flattened tin cans, scrap wood...
...Code almost lyrically extols the party and promises that even in that distant day when "the state will wither away," the party will remain. Through such devices as citizens' courts, voluntary "people's militia," and a reorganized political police whose new role is that of "friend and helper," Khrushchev has effectively replaced full-scale terror with the Orwellian technique of "mass discipline...