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Word: womanizers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marries a boney woman with a moon face whose voice was never a very good imitation of Marilyn Monroe's. If she hadn't married a President, she wouldn't have rated a second look in Dubuque, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1968 | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...astrologer, will tell her husband when to go into battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Women | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Flying Saucers. South Viet Nam's housewives have a proverb that "a wise woman makes a mandarin out of her husband," and publicly Vietnamese women are usually models of submissiveness. At home, though, the Vietnamese wife is known as the "minister of the interior," while her husband is the "foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Women | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

From the history of art and the myth of woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Belligerent Balladry of a Master Welder | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...riots, for example, Polk supplied the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders with data about the 12th Street area, a focal point of the upheaval. Polk was able to report, among other things, that in each block along 12th Street there were 26 or more households headed by a woman, a fact that suggested many broken homes. Now, Polk has contracts with ten cities, from Pittsburgh to Asheville, N.C., to supply urban statistical data. Since it already has most of the information stored in computers, it can sell it for 12½? a household v. the average charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Statistics: Counting the House | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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