Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been mutual isolation, incomprehension and worse-occasional beatings or rape incidents. Though Peking has become sufficiently aware of the problem to send advisory teams to boost morale and investigate complaints, countless youths go AWOL from the communes. Many refugees in Hong Kong are ex-students who braved a nine-hour swim through tightly patrolled waters to escape rural drudgery. Even more of the youths simply drift back to their native cities; without ration tickets to buy rice, they are forced to live underground, often stealing in order to survive...
...fiercely is also bothersome to leftist ideologues, but less so to Chou's technocrats. Intelligence reports from Wuhan have recently told of labor disruptions by industrial workers demanding higher wages. Politburo Member Wang Hungwen last year complained of some workers: "They want to reintroduce payment by the hour and premiums. Then what was the revolution...
Expensive Gems. In Boston, the city's only private indoor tennis club has closed its rolls, while its 1,300 members (at $100 dues and $10 per hour) fill eight courts 16 hours a day. Elegant jewelry stores in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles say that sales of expensive gems are better than ever. At the National Boat Show in Manhattan last month, sales and attendance were way up over last year. Marvelled Managing Director Frank Scalpone: "These people don't care about money...
Much of what the authors recommend is sound, though hardly new: partners should talk and touch more, stop working so hard at sex if they want to enjoy it, and let sexual awareness flow through their daily lives instead of confining it to half an hour in bed. Though likable and warm, Masters and Johnson are not much given to humor. But when one woman vaguely says that she wants to have children so she can watch something develop and grow, Johnson adroitly advises: "Get a plant...
...pain as well as pleasure, unhappiness as well as happiness"). But squeezed in amid the aphorisms are three nuggets of information: masturbation can relieve menstrual cramps; women seem more sexually responsive about two months after childbirth because of the increased blood supply to the pelvis; and in the first hour of sleep after orgasm, the woman usually moves toward the man, while he tends to stay where...