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...potent basic weapon: his reconciliation contract. The lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each unhappy husband and wife are invited to sign the contract, agreeing to all the pertinent parts. The key clause: parties who sign place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Burke's Conciliation | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Michigan), and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl. ¶ High-school athletes seeking the best market for their talents read some intriguing news from the Pacific Coast Conference. Effective next September, hourly wages for athletes working on campus will jump from $1.50 to $2.00, with a monthly paycheck of $100, rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...request that involves money when the husband retires to his lair to rest from the day's hunting, it is because it is the only time she sees him long enough to get any discussion on the matter. Responsibility in marriage goes further than merely providing a paycheck and material comforts. It is in that notion that the true "cultural poverty" of the husband lies. Men had better stop treating their wives like the housemaids their mothers once had and treat them like the companions they would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...never read such a bunch of rubbish. If the Government didn't take its pound of flesh out of every paycheck, there would be a hell of a lot of people they would have to beat it out of on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Except they would like a guarantee you won't go broke." Lichty's one-panel situations take place everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what do you do? Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television, and too preoccupied to hear your wife complain"). From Little Acorns. Chicago-born Cartoonist Lichty has been making a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grin & Draw It | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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