Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clinic services are listed. If she lives in the Chicago area, she will probably be directed to a clinic in the city's Magnificent Mile area. There, nestled among the posh Michigan Avenue stores, she will find a luxurious office filled with glass-and-chrome modular furniture. A receptionist tells her that for $150 to $250, payable in advance in cash or by Medicaid or credit cards, she can have an abortion. But what the typical Chicago-area young woman seeking an abortion is not told is that within the next few hours, she may be rushed through...
...whole boatload of American suck'n'roll vanity and self-deprecation. "I'm a actress working as an ad receptionist." "I'm a poet working as a public relations man." Everybody on their way to being someone else somewhere else...
...more calls than we know what to do with," says Elizabeth Weil. "The phone has been ringing off the hook. Betty Ford has really started something." Weil, the receptionist at a Beverly Hills plastic surgery clinic, is not alone. Across the nation last week, surgeons' offices were under siege by callers who had seen the results of a notable example of cosmetic surgery, evident in before-and-after pictures of the former First Lady in their Sunday newspapers...
Farmers notwithstanding, most Americans welcome foreign capital. A typical reaction comes from Lisa Freeburn, 21, who left her job as a bank teller to become a receptionist for the German-owned Keiper U.S.A., which opened an auto accessories plant in Battle Creek, Mich., 20 months ago. Says she: "I like it much better than the bank. There's more international atmosphere here. You get a bit of both cultures...
...name on the list each week is that of Hempel, who used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. Now he pays bonuses totaling $175 a week to 25 employees-13 who did not smoke in the first place and 12 who have curbed their habits. A receptionist happily reports that everyone is breathing "much nicer air" in the plant these days. "The implications for national health would be tremendous," Hempel says, if giant corporations like General Motors or General Electric adopted his old-fashioned capitalistic approach to clearing...