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...working mothers hold their jobs out of economic necessity. Most of the rest are furiously engaged in the race to keep up with the Müllers. with second cars, appliances and travel. One thing leads to another: appliances make housework more of a bore; travel and entertainment stir interests far from the Küche. According to a recent study, four out of five formerly docile hausfraus consider their lot unhappy, and most of them because they are "fed up with housework." With the divorce rate up and the birth rate down, many a West German male is musing...
...every day, Fidel Castro's strident Radio Habana Cuba fills the hemisphere's airwaves with Communist propaganda in an effort to stir a rebellion here, provoke a riot there, create chaos everywhere. Last week one of his neighbors had had enough. In Washington, Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Bonilla Atiles of the Dominican Republic went before the Council of the Organization of American States to lodge an official protest that Radio Habana was "attempting to destroy−by inciting to riot and murder−our beginning democracy...
...passing visitors and newsmen he knows, he talks as if convinced that the real source of his troubles lies in a soft and complacent national mood that invites the Congress to stand pat-or at least tolerates its intransigence. As he sees it, his task this fall is to stir up public interest for the domestic programs that he believes both sound and necessary...
...first attempt to stir up resistance ended feebly. APRA, the leftist-turned-moderate party denied power in the June presidential elections, issued a call for a nationwide general strike that was to last until the presidency was restored. But Lima's electric lights continued to burn brightly, the buses rolled, most business went on as usual. Anti-APRA unions refused to honor the strike. More important, the generals in the palace were waging a shrewd, conciliatory campaign to win public acceptance...
Iserloh's arguments have roused German Protestant historians and set off a stir of headlines in the German press. Sighed one confused Rhineland layman: "Next thing they'll be claiming that Jan Hus wasn't burned at the stake...