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...France, 32, is a part-time decorator who earns more than $6,000 a year. They live in a handsome but inexpensive six-room, sixth-floor apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu, just a block from the Champs-Elysées, with their two small daughters. A full-time maid lives on the floor above. In winter the Raguins take a week off to ski in the French Alps; in summer they rent a modestly priced seaside villa for a month on the island of Corsica, where they sail and waterski. Occasionally during the year they take long weekend trips...
...Valet and maid of the Nixon family; Bebe Rebozo...
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a maid. Roop (James Earl Jones) is a garbage man. She is a blend of obnoxious stereotypes. The first is the libidinous black woman who cannot stop having children despite her poverty. The second is the stern, loving matriarch urging the middle-class success ethic on her brood. Roop is merely single-line stereotype, the stud who has fled his obligations to one family and is now doing his best to love and leave Claudine...
...employers, who is the stingiest and the most exploitative of women? Surprisingly, a strong candidate is the professional woman who hires a maid to care for her household while she is out building a career. So concluded Doris B. McLaughlin, a labor expert at the University of Michigan, who surveyed domestics working for 50 professional women in Ann Arbor and found that the employers were apt to deny their household help benefits they themselves take for granted. Less than 5% of the employers provide paid holidays and a scant 11% grant paid sick leave. Regular, automatic raises are given...
Good Times. CBS. Friday, 8:30-9 p.m. E.D.T. Already renewed for next season, this is yet another "relevant" sitcom spun off the earlier creations of Tandem Productions (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude). Indeed, Florida (Esther Rolle) used to be Maude's maid. Now relocated in a Chicago housing project, she is seen as the matriarch of a black family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There...