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...whites are rich or even well off--in fact thousands are unemployed --but a comfortable style still seems to be the norm. The presence of servants is an important part of the lives of whites. Most middle-class families employ at least one live-in maid, and, with monthly wages running around $60, many have a cook or gardener as well. The thought of doing without household help seems to panic the whites almost as much as the slogan "One Man, One Vote." The young wife of a lawyer in Johannesburg, who is also the mother of two small children...
Radcliffe women of the early 1960s say theywere not supposed to allow this intellectualfreedom to interfere with their family lives. "Itwasn't the norm for women to have their career andchildbearing all at once," remembers Ann BoodyMorgan '61. "The women I knew raised theirfamilies first, then had careers." And Heywood,mother of three children, says: "My generation gotthe message that you planned a life so that in thefirst part you would have a family, but when thekids grew up you would have a career. Theywouldn't be simultaneous...
Define progressive levels of skill, responsibility and reward, with a salary norm of $35,500, rising to an average of $65,500 for special "lead teachers," who might do anything from setting curriculum standards to actually running a school, perhaps by committee...
...course, Tcherepnin says composer John Cage is the "patron saint of Music 159r." The works of such artists as Brian Eno and Philip Glass are also among the most important developments in the genre in recent years, says Tcherepnin. But recent popular electronic creations have deviated from the experimental norm established by pioneering artists, say students in Music 159r. Tcherepnin and students agree that the germinating influences by figures like Cage have been redirected toward more commercial goals. "Artists don't control their own creativity anymore," says Tcherepnin. "The real trick now," Pierce says, "is to find someone doing what...
Over the next several months, Griego and fellow Reporters Lou Kilzer and Norm Udevitz published dozens of articles proving that about 99% of so-called "missing children" were not abducted by strangers. Rather they were runaways (most of whom returned home within 72 hours) or were taken by parents involved in custody battles. The series, edited by Charles Buxton Jr., pointed out that in 1984 the FBI received reports on only 67 children kidnaped by strangers. For Post Editor David Hall, the stories were especially rewarding, since they began with "a rookie reporter looking deeper into a routine story...