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...married pretty Maria Cristina Vilanova, vacationing daughter of a wealthy El Salvador coffee-planting family that bitterly opposed her marriage to a foreign nobody. Arbenz brooded because his aristocratic young wife had to do her own housework and even tint photographs (at $1 each) to eke out his $60-a-month lieutenant's pay. He seethed at social injustices-especially his own-and whetted up a sharp hatred for Ubico, who despised most of his officers and carefully confined them to quarters whenever he left the capital. "You can't imagine what it is like to live under...
...hardly been inside a hospital before," recalls Cheshire. "I had to learn how to wash him, how to make his bed, as well as cook and do the housework and the garden. But somehow it worked. Arthur [the patient] thought he was alone in the world and nobody wanted him. Then he found that I wanted him. And it made all the difference...
...housewife to one editor, I am writing to tell you that it is utterly impossible and unbelievable for one woman to perform the exhausting schedule you have reported: Mrs. Nixon does most of the housework and laundry in her $41,000 home, she does half the cooking and all the marketing for a family of four, she plays handywoman, she answers on the average 200 letters a week, she attends luncheons and bazaars, and to top it all off, she goes to formal dinner parties most evenings ... Oh! She travels...
...Stockholm, Sweden's popular Radioman Lennart Hyland used his show to promote a "free wives' day." The gimmick: Swedish wives should take a Sunday off and let their husbands do all the housework. After some masculine grumbling, most Swedes (from Prime Minister Tage Erlander down to Mechanic Anders Larsson) pitched in while their wives went off to the movies or on specially run railroad excursions. Grocers reported a tremendous rise in the sale of canned goods...
...However, until hormones became available from factories to replace the body's products, it would have been impossible for a patient to live for a year without a pituitary. Senora R. has not only survived; she runs a neat home for her family and does all her own housework...