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...products are in demand everywhere, "I don't dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions and hence a tax on earnings, there has even been something of a return to barter. Example: a dentist will fix a plumber's teeth in exchange for having a sink repaired...
This proves to be no easy matter. For one thing, Rupert is constantly attended by a delectable nurse, Miss Deaton (Pamela Lewis), to whose charms he seems immune but to whose weird logic he succumbs. No suicide till the plumber comes to fix the hot water, she tells him. But he doesn't intend to scald himself to death, he argues. Non sequitur follows non sequitur. A trio of international jewel thieves arrives, but they also do quick-change sequences as Indian priests, complete with cobra and waxwork replicas of Captain Blood, Buffalo Bill and Marie Antoinette...
...Americans are growing more conservative, that cannot be blamed on just one region. The political views of Americans depend far more on their occupations and on their racial and ethnic backgrounds than on where they live. Political Analyst Scammon, former director of the Census Bureau, observes: "If a plumber decides to move from East Orange, N.J., to Galveston, Texas, he is likely to continue voting the way he has been voting, assuming he continues to work as a plumber in Galveston." The newcomers tend to bring their political baggage with them...
Manpower Hemorrhage. Nonetheless, the emigration of talent and labor hurts. Last week a diplomat's wife complained that there was only one plumber left in Paramaribo. There were hundreds of doctors, teachers and merchants among the emigrants, and the manpower hemorrhage included not only professionals but critically important farm workers as well. Surinam, a nation that imports more than 50% of its foodstuffs, must now also import farm workers to help harvest its sugar cane crops...
When Chicago Plumber Eugene Quinn, 44, was laid off from his $8-$10-an-hour construction job a year ago, he thought he could count on $98-a-week unemployment compensation, to which the Illinois Bureau of Employment Security said he was entitled. But for five months the IBES failed to send him so much as a dime. Since his wife Mary Anne's earnings as a file clerk do not cover much more than food for the family of five, the Quinns' electricity and phone bills went unpaid, and both services were cut off. Finally...