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Throughout most of history, no household of any substance woke, ate, played, lived or died without servants in attendance. Not so in the U.S. The fact is not just something for wives to natter about over the pink extension phone; most of them have stopped nattering about it long ago and accept it as a matter of course. Servantless living is so much a part of the American scene that a family with two cars in the garage, a kidney-shaped swimming pool, three TV sets, a $1,000 stereophonic unit, and a vacation cottage in the mountains...
...Villa Joly, overlooking the Mediterranean. The soldiers quickly pushed aside police bodyguards, hurried through the garden to the glass-paneled front door. There was a rough exchange in guttural Arabic, the sound of breaking glass, and a light snapped on in the President's upstairs bedroom. Ben Bella woke up to discover he was deposed and under arrest...
...doped, of course. As Mme. Munck, wife of a gendarme, later told police, "after a while I became sleepy." Across the compartment Truoc Nguyen Huu, a well-to-do Vietnamese businessman who had spent half of his 45 years in France, removed his shoes and socks. "When I woke up," Huguette told police, "I found my fellow traveler's toe in my left hand. I moved my hand at once. Then I seemed to go off to sleep again, and when I came to I discovered that man's toes in my mouth." That, of course, was only...
...Then I woke up. Students were peacefully studying and sleeping around me. The lights were humming...
...unlike a month ago, Harvard woke up against Northeastern. The Huskies were tired after playing almost continuously for a week but it was a clean win for the Crimson nonetheless...