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...prologue. For the first time since the women's suffrage movement, American male politicians are responding earnestly to women's demands: equal pay for equal work, simplified divorce and abortion, readily available day-care centers. By 1976, enough of a bloc might be formed to tip the balance in a presidential election. But in the long run, it may turn out that, in a sense, woman's place is in the home after all. Voting studies have indicated that anywhere from 75% to 95% of women vote like their husbands: conjugality breeds conformity. That does not mean...
...column, also does conspicuous Lib lip service, especially on the issue of legalized abortion, though the guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...
...further loosening of America's traditional links to Europe; to many Europeans, it seemed also to foretell a pendular swing of U.S. attention back to the kind of overfascination with China that prevailed up through the Roosevelt years. Moscow darkly suggested that the communique was only "the tip of an iceberg." Saigon puzzled unhappily over the fact that, unlike Japan and South Korea, South Viet Nam was given no specific U.S. pledge of support in the communique. Indonesians voiced the fear that Japan, left out in the cold, might arm itself with nuclear weapons...
...darkest times, some men have embraced as an ideal Plato's famous symbol of Reason: the charioteer masterfully reigning in his two horses, passion and will. But Western civilization has too often made of Plato's metaphor a sort of public memorial, something that men absently tip their hats to on history's Sunday afternoons. Even a man of reason like Santayana was forced to acknowledge man's habitual flight from its rule with his cover phrase for history: "normal madness...
...Cronin must agree to either add 15 per cent of the bill onto the bill as a service charge or to post signs saying that tips constitute half a waitress's salary and that a 15 per cent tip is expected at the restaurant...