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With a $1,000 grant from the Tufts rehabilitation department, Willard purchased two laboratory-bred capuchins named Crystel and Tish, at a cost of $350 each. Willard spent nearly a year training them with Skinner's trial-and-reward techniques and finally felt ready to turn them over to two handicapped people. One was a Mystic, Conn., woman who worked with Tish for three months before the experiment was halted. The other was William Powell, 31, who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down, except for partial use of his right arm (though not his hand), since a motorcycle...
...term displaced homemaker was invented by another Californian, Tish Sommers, 64, who was divorced at 57 and "discovered I was part of an invisible problem, one of the women who had fallen through the cracks, too young for social security, too old to be hired, not eligible for unemployment insurance because homemaking is not considered work." Also ineligible for welfare because she was not disabled and had no children under 18, caught in the double bind of age and sex discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields...
...with children receive more than $5,000 a year in support. Only 14% of divorce settlements include any alimony, and only 44% award child support-but less than half of either is paid regularly. Noting that working women earn on the average only 57% of men's wages, Tish Sommers says: "When you are a woman on your own, you are poor...
Because of her schedule, Baldrige turns down more social invitations than she accepts. Whenever possible she leaves a party at 11-"I have to get my sleep. It's the only way I can keep going." When Tish entertains, it is usually for Saturday or Sunday lunch. The Hollensteiners have a live-in housekeeper, but Tish does practically all the cooking herself...
When she reflects on how she might approach her life if given the chance to start it over again, Tish sees a vision curiously distant from the world of manners: "First of all, I'd go on the line and learn factory jobs, with the goal of someday being chairman of the board of U.S. Steel...