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...supposed to make some difference to the viewer that the lady plumber has been on vacation and has returned to be embarrassed by yet another stained kitchen sink. Dentyne's "no-hum mouth" marks a new low in tasteless breath commercials, and the feminine hygiene spray ads tell more than anyone could want to know about Dorothy Provine and Jill Haworth...
...restaurants or the other conveniences that are a part of the auto age in the West. In Moscow alone, a city of 7,300,000, there are only 19 repair shops, 105 gas stations and 32 parking lots. "When I need my car fixed, I have to call a plumber," laments one Moscow auto owner...
Many men, of course, are appalled by distorted visions of the liberated woman's Utopia, a sort of all-female 1984. They fear, as Cato suggested (circa 195 B.C.): "The moment they begin to be your equals, they will be your superiors." Men like San Francisco Plumber Dick Burke say that "if women want to be equal, let 'em; if they want to be plumbers, let 'em. But when they go out on a job, they're gonna have to lift 200 lbs. of pipe like any other plumber." The basic idea of job equality gets an approving nod from...
...five-year development plan that included an ambitious housing and rural development program. "We have already gone further than any other Caribbean territory except Cuba," he said. But the local population-49% black and 40% East Indian-does not seem overly impressed. Says a 60-year-old plumber who has been out of work for eight years: "I will never live to see half of what he is promising...
Somewhere in the Yard I read a leaflet with a quotation from Albert Einstein, saying that if he could start all over again he would prefer to be a plumber or peddler. Then at least he would have had some degree of freedom and people would have interfered less with his life. As a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs I felt like a peddler enjoying maximum freedom in the nine months I have spent here. It therefore required a mental exercise to follow the reasoning of the members of NAC who, in their "mill-in" of last week...