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Between fires and false alarms the men spend long periods of time waiting in the firehouse. They keep busy by doing rather ordinary things like practicing firefighting skills, maintaining their apparatus, or doing housework--they do all of their own cooking and cleaning. They also play a lot of ping-pong (a good game for the firehouse because it is easily interrupted), watch television or just sit around the kitchen table drinking coffee and engaging in endless streams of locker-room banter...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Life in the Firehouse (Or, The Fantasy Island In Our Own Back Yard) | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

...gnomes--mother, father and the little gnomes all have their roles to play and they play them without question or rebellion. While the head of the household goes out to bring home the bacon (only figuratively so, because gnomes are strict vegetarians), his wife stays home and does housework...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: To Gnome is to Love 'Em | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...sexual relations across the color line are illegal, with long jail sentences attached. Africans may only go to special "Bantu" schools, designed to train them as servants in white-owned in dustry; blacks must pay for their education, while whites get it free. "Bantu Education" features classes in housework and 60 children to a classroom...

Author: By Neva L. Seidman, | Title: Harvard's Share in Apartheid | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

...former Happy Homemaker and Georgia Engel, the bubbleheaded wife of Newscaster Ted Baxter, reappear as TV actress and her bubbleheaded roommate. In We've Got Each Other, CBS tries a tamer version of the role-reversal ploy that flopped in All That Glitters. Here, hubby does the housework while wife trudges off to the photography studio. CBS's On Our Own shows what happens when two young girls get into the advertising business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome breather from diapers and housework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decca's Blithe Zeitgeist | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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