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Although Protestant sisterhoods are now a permanent part of the church, only a handful of orders and mother houses require candidates to take permanent vows. The Kaiserswerth deaconesses, for exam ple, are asked only to serve a minimum of three years, and many sisters do leave to marry or take jobs as laywomen. But thousands of others are permanently enthralled by the call of community, and spend their lives in Christian service...
...bracket. And there is plenty of frosting on the cake. Last year's championship playoff was worth $5,500 to each man on the Packer squad; this year the winner's share will probably hit $7,000. The Packers get free life insurance (minimum policy: $10.000) and a free medical plan that pays 80 of their families' ordinary doctors' bills, more in emergencies. Defensive Halfback Jesse Whittenton owns the King's (X). a supper club in Green Bay: End Gary Knafelc is vice president of a school supply company, and Bart Starr manages a downtown...
...distinction between rich and poor may end at the grave, but in France, where some churches offer ten classes of funerals, it does not end a moment before. About $10 will send the French workingman to his maker in a dignified but austere manner; a minimum of $1,500 gives eminent members of the bourgeoisie a church bedecked inside and out with black silk draperies embossed with the initials of the deceased, plus a chorus of 30 voices accompanied by harps, trumpets, violins and cellos, and an elaborately carved casket resting on an ornate catafalque built especially for the occasion...
Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line. Mailing labels are typed and pasted by hand, and requests for catalogues are filed in shirt boxes. Pay is so modest that each change in the federal minimum-wage law has required an adjustment of the whole salary schedule...
Using questionnaire responses and application folders, the Radcliffe Residence Office attempted to avoid major errors in freshman roommate assignment. "But there is a minimum number of things we can do, and after that the situation must and does take care of itself," Miss Williston said, "in this area, there is such a thing as working very hard for very little reward...