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...good provider Bobby was. Bobby hardly ever had to work more than a couple of nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby and his gang. But Bobby was often violently jealous of his wife, and the O'Connors' home life was less than tranquil. Once, after he saw Maggie talking to a man in a bar, Bobby rushed home, grabbed a pair of scissors, and cut all Maggie's and the children's clothes to shreds...
...Bible Belt. Baptist Christianity, like many another dissident religion, found a happy home in the U.S. Its fierce egalitarianism, its jealous separation of church and state, its warm, free form of worship-all had strong appeal for the kind of man most likely to succeed on the new continent. And so the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Baptists and the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Americans took to each other and grew up together...
Wasteful Ways. Today the belly of Paris is badly upset. And the symptoms it suffers from are those that afflict all France-the paralysis of outworn tradition, the plague of overorganized centralization, the jealous persistence in selfish ways. The tradition began in 1134, when King Louis the Fat picked out a quiet meadow on Paris' outskirts for the food marketeers. The meadow has long since been surrounded by the center of burgeoning Paris, but no one has been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network...
...months after the Korean war began, the French stipulated that U.S. forces should be limited to some 7,500 men at any one time. The three bases at Sidi Slimane, Benguerir and Nouasseur absorbed the full quota of Americans. The French will not let any more in: they are jealous of their own prestige, fearful of U.S. political appeal for the restive Moroccans, and no longer so worried about a general war. Last week, caught in this embarrassing spot, the U.S. Air Force in Washington insisted that it had never really intended to use Boulhaut as an operational base...
...appellation "New Australian" for all immigrants. It stuck. A Good Neighbor movement was launched and hundreds of clubs formed to bring New Australians and Old Australians together. Assimilation has had its failures. The conservative British Medical Association opposes the registration of European doctors. The Trades and Labor Council, jealous custodian of half a century of labor gains, was outraged when hard-working immigrants refused to take "morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists opposed to unionism." Crime increased with the rising population, and Australians were disturbed...