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...hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going to do more work for the city," she says proudly. "I wish more people in more towns could do the same thing...
...materials such as stones, branches and brush, arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home of "the first inhabitants of England to make permanent changes in the landscape," and Coalbrookdale, "the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution...
...Soviet official known to reflect the thinking of the Politburo told TIME: "If, by next spring, SALT II is not ratified, it will be lost because the military preparations of the U.S. in all directions -Western Europe, Japan and China -lead to a changing balance of forces and wash out the agreements reached." The statement was most significant in its reference to "next spring." This authoritative indication that the Kremlin may be resigned to SALT II ratification a full year from now is more positive than anything the Soviets have told the Administration even in private diplomatic channels...
Kilbourne cited several advertisements that illustrate men as the dominant sex, pointing out that in the Wisk "ring-around-the-collar" commercial, "no one ever wonders why the man doesn't wash his neck...
...them have a lower standard of living than they would enjoy back home. "It's a struggle, and there are lots of frustrations," says Patty Hall, 21, wife of Airman Walter Hall of Norfolk. "We don't have the money to go out at all, and I wash all our clothes by hand because the base launderette is too expensive. But I wouldn't trade this life for anything." A number of wives do find work, often at U.S. bases...