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This tale of delay is not uncommon in the Soviet Union, which long regarded service jobs as demeaning and accorded them low status and pay. In a classless society, a plumber, a waiter or a barber was thought to lack self-respect because he had to cater to others. The result, not surprisingly, has been a severe shortage of trained people in the whole range of service occupations...
...Uncommon Bigot...
...WHISPERERS. An old, retired domestic on the dole in an English industrial town is the somewhat sociological subject of this film, which nevertheless rises to uncommon heights because of a soaring performance by Dame Edith Evans...
...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. A sprightly scenario, the taut direction of Gene Kelly, and the uncommon acting talent of Walter Matthau turn this into one of the best sex comedies of the season...
Corporate headhunters have been descending on campuses with uncommon force and flair. Some 500 swarmed to Stanford University this year, as against 350 last season. At Michigan State, 2,500 companies, including many smaller businesses on the campus circuit for the first time, lined up to dicker with 5,000 prospects. With men in such short supply, the recruiting surge has intensified the search at female enclaves like Smith College, whose "vocational office" finds business better than ever...