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...Francisco Bureau Chief Boyce grew up in Danville, Ill., at first living in one room with his mother and brother. When he later moved to Chicago, his black middle-class school chums "would politely but firmly remind me of my place." In all, though, his new friends received him into their homes graciously, a fact he recalled on being warmly welcomed by the families he reported on for the cover story. "The subjects were cooperative, even eager to talk about their life-styles and aspirations," he says, "which don't differ much from those of middle-class whites...
...findings of Labor Expert Doris B. McLaughlin that professional women are often exploitive of their maids [May 6] remind me of a story of a slave in ancient Rome. Upon being informed that his master, newly converted to Christianity, was soon to set all his slaves free, the man discussed with some of his fellows what each was going to do. While his fellow slaves had all kinds of ideas, his own was, "I'll buy two slaves to take care...
...prime example. Walzer says that she doesn't know what will result from the OWE's discovery and publicity of discrepancies in the money both available to, and won by, women. Office staff-people have already visited with the appropriate departments, and next year will, Walzer says, "gently remind" them that women too are eligible for at least some of the prize money at Harvard. As a starter, all students will receive information about prizes in their registration folders. "The feeling before always was that if a person was interested in a prize, he or she could take the initiative...
...could remind the administration--and it could remind Harvard, whose graduates have too often served inhumane administrations--that even when the cancer of Watergate is gone, the public will not tolerate the greater miseries men such as Nixon and Richardson have perpetrated...
...stars. Both are careful to convey the notion that this is a slumming expedition by a woman best known for playing the upwardly mobile Julia on TV, and by an actor whose bombastic style seems calculated less to make his portrayal of a sanitation worker believable than to remind us that he has done quite a bit of Shakespeare...