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...domestics has declined dramatically from some 2.5 million four years ago to 1.5 million today. The reasons: generally low pay, few benefits, transportation difficulties, low status and the easy alternative of going on welfare. "There is still a stigma attached to being a domestic," says Historian David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week (Oxford University Press; $14.95), a new book about household help in the U.S. from 1870 to 1920. "Cleaning women," he adds, "suffer from isolation and an atomization of work. They have none of the camaraderie that women in offices share...
...Cleaning services display a sense of professionalization that tends to upgrade the occupation of the domestic," says Katzman. "Traditionally the worker was hired to satisfy the employer's personal status needs; today that process is being depersonalized. The new services decide how they'll clean the house. As professionals, they don't have to listen to the housewife's way of doing things. It's more businesslike-they simply make a contract for a certain job to be done...
...There were two Cadillacs parked here, and all of a sudden they just floated down the street," recounted Mike Collard, a cook at the Plaza III restaurant. Barber Gene Katzman heard "people hollering from rooftops, 'Here we are -help us!' Kids were scared and crying. The people were panicked...
...that about 50 senior citizens joined the Yippies in a march from the Convention Center, and another 16 gave the Yips a key to the city. This week Guru Allen Ginsberg was to perform a mammoth marriage ceremony symbolizing the union of the young and old. Said Yippie Allen Katzman: "Many of these senior citizens are really hip. They've been fighting the IRS and Social Security and the health-care system longer than we have." The Yippies, of course, are very different from the young activists inside the hall, but their gestures toward the elderly were intriguing...
Brandeis coach K. C. Jones--the former Celtic great--got a few standout individual efforts, but did not have the depth to stay with Harvard. Steve Katzman, a senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., embarrassed Dover on defense in the second half, scoring 23 of his 25 points, mostly on medium-range jumpers...