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GENE ROBERTS and David R. Jones, the former and present National Editor for The Times, have definitely overstated their case. This is a time of journalistic prestige, when the press often seems drunk in the heady euphoria of its chance successes, when the most menial cub "stringer" has his pet theory about the role of journalism in society. No wonder the editors seem to feel insecure about this sort of breezy, down-home folksy journalism amidst their solemn big brothers at The Times with their grave headlines about politics and foreign policy. Cringing at that phrase from the high school...
...most secretaries here. She spends a good part of her nine-to-five workday sitting in her office typing for her boss. She adamantly insists she likes being a secretary--"Secretary can be a satisfying job if you can get respect," she says. "Secretaries are so used to menial tasks, doing what they're told, that they don't think. I'd like to see secretary raised to professional status...
...role she has tailored for herself over the years at places like Harlem's Apollo Theater is an outrageous caricature of a menial black. She is a whole lot smarter than she looks, and she sure looks terrible. Her hair-what there is left of it-is styled by Mixmaster. Her speech is so slurred that she sounds as if she has gargled with molasses. What she says may sound like gibberish, but she is always savvy...
Shortly after Ford moved into the White House he went back to his Alexandria home to pick up his shoe trees. A graduate of the Nixon School of Imperial Protocol was aghast because American Presidents are not supposed to indulge in such menial tasks. Fortunately Ford has not as yet found out that he is completely above the humdrum routines of daily existence...
...long as five years ago may prove impossible. There is a problem of equity too for the many men who sought status as conscientious objectors and would have served 24 months in alternate work, but were denied that classification by local draft boards. To ask them to take menial jobs now, when they have acquired careers and families, seems harsh. Many also became fugitives before the Supreme Court, in June 1970, broadened the definition of conscientious objector to embrace persons resisting service on ethical rather than purely religious grounds. In addition, many draft evaders have received short or suspended sentences...