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Like others who have paid calls of late, Atkins found Nixon in good spirits. He looked bright-eyed and fit, showed a touch of the old presidential bearing and vigor and was seemingly determined to demonstrate that the Nixon household had weathered Watergate and returned to normality. Atkins' color photographs, shown exclusively in TIME on the following pages, bear out those impressions...
...clearly shown than in the relationship of the Lassiters and their servants. Tuesday's episode showed Mrs. Hacker, the housekeeper, pleading with Rosamond, the youngest Lassiter daughter, not to sack the new maid. That a servant would dare to confront her employer so boldly would be unthinkable in a household of the British or American aristocracy. That a woman so recently arrived in the position of having a housekeeper would not be threatened (as Rosamond was not) by this kind of display of gall should be unthinkable in this...
...thus cleared, Biographer Cate dramatically details the involvements that his scholarship can verify-including affairs with Prosper Mérimeée, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Chopin, one Italian surgeon, two French lawyers and an international assortment of young men who entered Sand's household as tutors for her two children, Maurice and Solange...
...lineaments of a post-industrial society. Today in the U.S., 64 out of every 100 people are engaged in services; by 1980 about 70 out of every 100 will be employed in that sector. And these are new kinds of service, not those characteristic of an agrarian society (largely household servants) or an industrial economy (largely the auxiliary services of transportation and utilities, as well as some banking), but "human services" (the expansion in medical care, education and social welfare), professional technical services (research, planning, computer systems), and the like. This has meant that the fastest growing segment...
Husbands commonly waive their legal right to determine where the couple will live, and agree to do half of the household chores. Many provisions emphasize privacy and freedom, calling for separate rooms and nights out. Extramarital affairs, says Sussman, bring "the greatest amount of inconsistency and confusion." Some contracts permit affairs, though there are often rules about how long an affair can go on without one's married partner being informed...