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...more and more comics. "People are a lot more hip about humor today," says Bob Hope. "People like their comedians to be current. We have to do the things they're reading about. De Gaulle, for example. One man against the world-he's jealous of the American and the Russian walk in space; he's still trying to walk on water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...retiring for a decade to bear and rear children, and then making a comeback. Women need to think of "new patterns new combinations. Babies can be left in day nurseries." She is suspicious of successful women; she claims women's college presidents, who have achieved some success, are especially jealous of their positions, regard themselves as exceptional, and assure their students that "all women are not capable of combing careers and marriages...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Betty Freidan | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

Devoted professional women, then, are "jealous of their positions" and unwilling to help their sisters; but self-declared house-wives sell out, too. Mrs. Friedan cannot find any model for her "four-dimensional women." She disdains most American women because they settle for jobs as clerk-typists yet she blindly works for a millennium, a "human revolution...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Betty Freidan | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

...snappy Local Defense Corps, a military unit that guards power plants and government buildings in the tiny Asian seaport state. Though Singapore's population of nearly 2,000,000 is four-fifths Chinese, half of its cops and soldiers come from the 270,000 Malays, who comprise a jealous and often violent minority. Hence, when a Chinese Defense Corps major last week ordered the recruit company to split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism was triggered. The Malays chased the Chinese major, beat up the Chinese recruits, who had not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore: Dismissed | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Jealous of CBS's quiz ratings, Friendly enemies at rival networks have joined the test patterns. Last week NBC asked, "Is Anybody Honest?", then showed that more than a third of the country would lie, cheat and steal at the drop of the other fellow's wallet. ABC's forthcoming People Poll ("starring Garry Moore and You") will examine such profound questions as "Should the husband be the boss in the household?" (Yes, say 57% of a Gallup pre-poll), and "Is the husband boss in your household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Testing, One, Two, Three . . . | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

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