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...hands upon appointment"?a ceremony in which the leader of the winning party is summoned to Buckingham Palace, there to be designated Prime Minister of Britain by the monarch and asked to form a government. The monarch, of course, was Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister was Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 53, a grocer's daughter from the English Midlands, who last week led her Conservative Party to a decisive victory over James Callaghan's Labor Party. The Tories won a solid majority of 43 seats in the 635-member House of Commons,* and Thatcher thereby became not only...
...MOST appalling story in this volume is entitled "Hilda and Rango." Hilda is a young woman in Paris who is attracted to a Hemingway-esque American writer. When she gets into bed with him, she finds that he is really rather retiring and prefers her to be the aggressor. They become lovers and she assumes the role of leader to please him. But she is not fulfilled. "She had always dreamed of having a man who would force her will, rule her sexually, lead...
...hairy. He takes her to his wagon, where she commits the grave faux pas of reaching for his pants, which makes him angry. She questions him and he says, "You make the gesture of a whore." He caresses her for days but refuses to make love to her. "Hilda felt that the female in her was being taught to submit to the male, to obey his wishes. She felt that he was still punishing her for the gesture she had made..." Finally one day she breaks the heel of her shoe and he has to carry her. Apparently excited...
Back in New York, he started as a lowly flack, a pressagent. But he worked his way up so fast that, before the end of the Depression, he and his wife Hilda were able to move into the house on Gramercy Park, which for years had been subdivided into poky flats. No. 19 had been built in 1845, rebuilt in the 1860s and finally remodeled in the 1880s by Stanford White. It had fallen into disuse, and the Sonnenbergs, sensing their ideal domestic theater in it, began the long work of restoration, accumulating the furniture (Sheraton and Chippendale-pattern credenzas...
...breed of domestic sometimes works through an agency like Chicago's Broom Hilda service, which, according to Owner Lou Williams, looks for employees with stability, literacy and shared values with the 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...