Word: servante
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...love for the maid's baby if only the maid will stay on. The story is told of a domestic whose three illegitimate children were adopted by her employer, whereupon she left the household because, she said, "I would never work for a woman with three children." The "servant problem" has long been a staple of female conversation among those who could afford the problem, but never, as today, have so many talked about so few. The huge increase in the number of working wives and of families affluent enough to afford domestic help has created a record demand...
Everyone a Vice President. "When I was a girl.'' says a Kansas City matron, "most of my friends' families had servants. Today I know of only one family with servants who live in. It isn't the pay. It's simply a matter of being unable to get a maid or a cook to live in at any price." Many families live in smaller homes than they can afford just so that they will be able to get along without domestic help, trusting to modern appliances to make the housewife's work easier...
...week. Day workers usually charge by the hour, rarely get less than the $1.25 minimum wage and often get up to $2.50. Whatever the pay-and many families are willing to pay much more than the average to get help-rapid turnover vastly complicates the servant problem. In fact, many household workers, like their employers, now like to stay North in the summer, then quit when winter approaches and take another job in Florida...
...business leaders on the surface increasingly resemble their U.S. counterparts. But important differences will always remain-if for no other reason than that so much of European business is nationalized. Contrary to what most Americans might expect, some of Europe's ablest managers are civil servants who drive to expand their industrial empires with a zeal worthy of any capitalist. Says Civil Servant Pierre Dreyfus, who has built France's state-owned Renault company into one of the world's most efficient auto producers: "We have no reason to be nationalized unless we serve France...
...White House lawn last week were 4,800 college students-the better part of 7.900 just winding up summertime Government jobs (TIME, Aug. 17). "I wonder," said the President, "if we could ask how many have become interested in either becoming a politician or a civil servant or a bureaucrat as a result of this summer?" Perhaps 500 hands went up. "What about the rest of you?" he asked. The kids laughed. So did Kennedy, as he began taking them on an informal tour through history...