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...BOYLE Captain, U.S.N. (ret.) A.P.O., San Francisco Housemaid's Plea...
...Your photographs of the backside! of the moon [Jan. 10] recalled an excursion into poetry, in the 19th century,| by the housemaid of Sir Edmund Gosse. After a moonlight evening in as English garden she presented to her master next; morning these immortal lines...
...Greece's 8.5 million people, has hardly set a high moral tone. It was rocked in 1962 by the charges that its newly elected Primate was a homosexual; he was subsequently deposed. It was shaken two years later when a bishop was dethroned for committing adultery with his housemaid. In 1965, after the bishops became embroiled in a violent public scramble for wealthy sees, the civilian government of Premier Stephanos Stephanopoulos stepped in and ordered the Assembly of Bishops to stop shuffling the sees to the highest-bidding bishops. The junta justified last week's invasion of church...
Whatever the showmanship, it is the stewardess who carries the brunt of being both star attraction and hard-working housemaid. What with jet flights getting shorter and menus growing longer, the stewardesses' life aloft is a kind of hell in the heavens. There are as many as 195 guests to greet, seat, serve ancj-within reason-sate, and the girls must perform like a whirlwind combination of Jean Shrimpton, Gwen Cafritz, a short-order cook and a nurse for all ages. One Western Air Lines time-motion expert, for instance, has figured out that on an 85-minute flight...
...think about it, the immorality of it grabs you by the throat, and you want to run, to get it out of your system," says a white not long out of Europe. "But then it's a new day, and the hibiscus blazes on your stoop, the housemaid is singing a township song as she hangs out the clothes, and your children are tanner than ever and growing like trees. The anguish of South Africa seems a long way away...