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...opened, five of its 32 waitresses (who must be presentable and well educated to get Hilton jobs) have left to be married, making the Hilton such a popular employer that a large percentage of girls are among the 40,000 people who have applied there for jobs. A Cairo transit firm hired 25 lady conductors, responding to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's program for the economic emancipation of Egyptian women. Within six months most of the girl conductors had married either drivers or passengers. Today only three are left on the job. Though Cairo's Moslem women have...
...regale the newcomers with tall tales of the North, such as the one about the trapper who aimed a kick at what he thought was his neighbor's dog one night, connected with the rump of a polar bear. It is a society of rough humor; in-transit passengers at Frobisher blush to see the yellow de Havilland Otter labeled "Arctic Whore." Housewives soon learn to adjust to the rigors of the North. They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break the arms and legs off the frozen long underwear. During the long winter...
...Commonwealth." At a London Conference in 1949 the assembled Prime Ministers issued a communique that began with a reference to "the British Commonwealth" and ended with a declaration of unity by the "free and equal members of the Commonwealth." It was no accident that the adjective "British" vanished in transit. Lester ("Mike") Pearson, then Canada's External Affairs chief, recalls: "It was the British genius for evasion or compromise or common sense, whatever you wish to call it. Neither name satisfied everyone there, so both were used. It is now officially and in daily talk-at least in Canada...
...exhibit, however, ignores one large piece of land that the University hopes to acquire, the 13 1/2 acre area across Boylston St. from Eliot House now occupied by Metropolitan Transit Authority carbarns and storage yards. In February the University disclosed that it had made a "firm offer" for the property, promising the MTA $1 million over the "market value" of the land...
...found himself the victim of time's toll and the itch for change. In a dull campaign, pleasant, smiling Harold Grady paraded his past (onetime FBI agent, state's attorney for Baltimore city) and his children (four), vaguely mentioned urban renewal and the city's sagging transit system. But taking office next week, Grady will undergo a sudden, cold-shower lesson in humility. Like every large U.S. city, Baltimore is staggering under booming population, a tax squeeze, demands for more schools, housing and municipal services...