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...finally admitted to myself that housework was downright boring and did nothing to challenge my intellect. So I went back to work as a medical lab technician and later back to college for my B.S. degree. At first I felt guilty, but my husband soon noticed how my spirits and disposition improved. My job gave me a sense of worth and purpose that I did not get from washing dishes and scrubbing floors...
...other hand, editors of TV video tape are almost all men. The three major networks have only one female tape technician. In other technical areas, there is only one union film camerawoman in the nation-though with increasing use of smaller, lighter 16-mm. cameras there may soon be more. A few women also freelance as sound technicians for TV and more often for radio...
Trotsky had special glands for invective, reserving the bitterest for liberals who did not share his theories of revolution. He emerges as a superrationalist technician to whom history was "an enormous machine in the service of our ideals." But he also felt he had unique intuitive powers...
...Having gone through the dilemma of whether to obey or resist, I found myself, against my moral and spiritual conscience, serving as ordered in Viet Nam. As a surgical technician, mine was not a direct encounter with the fighting but a position in which I witnessed the brutality and absurdity of war. I could not help offering my understanding to those deserters and resisters who, according to their higher conscience, refused any association with the military murder machine. I cast my vote for total absolution for these...
...base pay of a seaman is six rubles per month (about $7). Sailors on duty at northern bases get an additional two rubles per month, and base pay is doubled for submarine crews. A specialist, like a sonar technician, earns about $10 per month, a chief warrant officer about $55, a lieutenant $65 and a captain $135, which is doubled if he commands a ship. There are enormous differences between the life-styles and privileges of the various ranks. Officers above the rank of commander, for instance, are provided with housing near bases for their families; enlisted sailors-mostly three...