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Says Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder: "The primary reason women are entering the labor force in such unprecedented numbers is to maintain their family's standard of living." Statistics are the arithmetic of social revolution: from 1960 to 1980, one-earner households have declined from 49.6% to 22.4%, a staggering change. The percentage of married women in the staggering change. The percentage of married women in the work force during the same period has risen from 32% to 51%. The number of children with mothers who work (31.8 million) has become, for the first time, larger than the number of children with...
...least avoid one another when they had no business to discuss. Thrown together on a tightly scheduled visit to Europe, they got into explosive quarrels over the pettiest matters. For example, Haig is said to have regarded it as an affront that the helicopter carrying him and his wife Patricia from Heathrow Airport outside London to Windsor Castle was far behind the Reagans' chopper. According to White House aides, he upbraided Clark and Baker on the lawn at Windsor Castle, while Queen Elizabeth II was welcoming Reagan. "He went crazy," recalls one presidential assistant. Haig further annoyed Clark...
DIVORCED. Freddie Laker, 59, British pioneer of low-cost, no-frills transatlantic flights, whose Laker Airways was grounded by bankruptcy earlier this year; by American-born Patricia Gates Laker, 43; after seven years of marriage, one son, Fred Jr.; on grounds of adultery; in London...
American retailers wish there were a lot more people like Patricia Goodson around these days. Such a free-spending attitude would help lift the economy from the painful recession that has gripped the U.S. since last July. Economists agree that the consumer is the most important factor behind the rebound that many expect to start in the summer. Says Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department: "The consumer is going to have to bring us out of this recession. The other major sectors of the economy aren't going to contribute much, if anything...
...atomic physicist, is less than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand lacks focus, particularly in the second act, but it is probably the best thing the playwright has written since Small Craft Warnings, a decade ago. It is inhabited by a rich collection of Williams' scarred characters; reworked...