Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elapsed--three minutes. On the second floor of the garage a flustered old man complains that his station wagon has been broken into. When did he park it there, the police officer asks. What are you missing? The questions continue. The old man reaches into his glove compartment--"My wife's Gulf credit card," he answers...
...tries to give pretentiousness a good name, amuses its millionaire patrons with tongue-in-checkbook "ultimate gifts" in its Christmas catalogue. Among this year's offerings: a professionally filmed documentary of your life for $50,000, a private island and lighthouse in the Pacific for $750,000, your wife's weight in loose 10-carat diamonds at $4 million per lb. and an offshore oil rig, capable of drilling in 300 ft. of water, for $28.7 million...
MARRIED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, Richard Nixon's domestic affairs chief and Watergate conspirator; and Christine Peacock McLaurine, 30, interior designer; both for the second time; in Staten Island, N.Y. Ehrlichman, divorced only last month, met his new wife eight months ago in a Manhattan furniture store, where she worked as a salesperson. The couple plan to live in Santa...
...getting help. A Fort Lauderdale couple succeeded in finding a housekeeper only after the husband, an attorney, received a client's domestic as part of a bonus for handling his divorce case. "I never know whether she's going to show up or not," admits the wife. "Still, I'm lucky to have her. If I tell her she's not reliable, she'll just tell me that she can work some place else...
...Washington businessman turned down an all-expenses-paid trip to Egypt with his wife "because our maid insisted on going home to Ireland that month." A San Francisco mother who is working for her B.A. plans her classes around her housekeeper's schedule. While many people tend to tidy up before their cleaning women arrive, a New York communications manager goes that act one better: after he has a party, he hires a cleaning service to straighten up the apartment before his regular maid arrives. Liberal and feminist sentiments also make some employers feel guilty about hiring others...