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...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...
...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...
...when Larry was a part-time helper in Springfield's Democratic headquarters and his father was a state committeeman from western Massachusetts, the O'Briens defied their Irish Catholic neighbors and supported Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination, instead of Al Smith, who was the local favorite. O'Brien Sr. was denied a seat in the Massachusetts delegation for his heresy, but history proved that Father knew best...
College Family. Son of a boilermaker's helper who never got past the fourth grade, Boston, now 22, is the youngest of ten children-all of whom went to college. He played baseball at five, quarterbacked his high school football team in Laurel and ran hurdles well enough to earn an athletic scholarship to Tennessee State (which has also turned out such female sprinters as Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams). A straight B student in biochemistry despite his frequent absences, Boston hopes to enter medical school after graduation next January...