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...morning broke each workday last week over the pleasant St. Louis suburb of University City, an impish-looking, tire-waisted man gingerly eased himself into a tub of steaming hot water and submerged right up to his jug-handle ears. For most men, the solitary ritual of the tub means a chance to escape for a while from the cares and worries of the world outside-but not for William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water...
Every business day but one, Ben A. gets into his car in a Seattle suburb and drives clear across the city to the sporting-goods store where he is a clerk. He puts in a normal workday, then drives home to his wife and two small children. What sets Ben A., 24, apart from millions of other Americans who drive daily to and from such jobs is that he spends Wednesdays-a full 24 hours-in University Hospital, hooked up to an artificial kidney. Without that Wednesday stint on the machine, he would be dead, probably before the month...
...neither the capitalist type of social living nor the family was so easily undermined. As early as December 1958, party brass noted the growing discontent and cut the workday to twelve hours. They also returned a small portion of the expropriated land to its former peasant owners, together with a small red card that bore the inscription: "This private plot of land belongs to your family permanently, and crops grown on it shall be disposed of by you only...
Domestically, Quadros promised "to impose the most rigorous government morality." He appeared at the presidential office building at 7:30 a.m. the day after inauguration only to find long lines of offices standing empty. With cold anger he ordered a new ten-hour workday, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., with a three-hour break. That very evening, homeward-bound functionaries, slipping into buses at 6 p.m., were ordered out and back to work by palace guards. Quadros also ordered an investigation of corruption in five federal agencies-an action that is bound to have a stirring effect on Brazil...
...busy building of palaces and impressive government offices in Riyadh, and grumbling artisans and tradesmen quit town by the thousands. And Feisal's stern watchdog role took a heavy personal toll. Troubled for years by a stomach ailment, he went on a liquid diet and an 18-hour workday. Snapped one Saudi who recently visited Feisal: "His dingy office was piled right to the ceiling with files, files, files. He insisted on signing everything personally, even visas. Was this the way for a Bedouin prince to live...