Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the South Vietnamese army and police have some 7,700 female volunteers in staff and clerical jobs, a proposal to draft women outright was turned down: such a measure would cripple the country's economy. Of the city of Saigon's labor force of 330,000, fully 250,000 are women. They work as construction hands, substitute for men in manpower-short professions, own or run most of the capital's jewelry, clothing and tailoring shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs...
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...
...hamburgers. For them, as for most victims, the illness was uncomfortable and not disabling. But Toxoplasma is like rubella in one respect: it wreaks its worst havoc on the unborn child, causing encephalitis, hydrocephalus, heart damage and hepatitis. Says Kean: "If this epidemic had occurred in five pregnant women, the potential danger to their unborn children-either fetal death or severe brain damage-would have been enormous...
...Sunday morning has the look of frontier tranquillity. The streets are clean and nearly free of traffic-except on the midtown corners that surround the First Baptist Church. Here, beginning shortly before 8 a.m., cars crowd in to disgorge loads of early worshipers. A few of the young women wear miniskirts, bouffant hairdos and unlikely eyelashes. Their female elders, considerably less chic, carry the aura of talcum and printed voile that spells the Sabbath all over the South...
...with great simian gusto by William Devane, is an accused rapist in police custody. A howling mob, which seems largely composed of teenyboppers, demonstrates throughout-half for him and half against him. A ratty prosecuting attorney introduces highly clinical and irrelevant evidence against him; the alleged rape victims-two women, a young girl and a boy-seem to have enjoyed every minute of the experience...