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...industrial community of 6,210 people, 19 churches, five public parks and two nursing homes. It has the third largest swimming pool in the state and boasts a Holiday Inn. As in most small towns, the social geography follows the contour of the land. In Red Oak, the rigid distinctions between "The Hill" and "The Flats" have just begun to be blurred by the subdivisions housing the middle-class managers of the new industries...
...mistress and two slaves, making in all, two." In the past few years that community has come under increasing attack from feminists who feel that the traditional marriage has really consisted of one master (the husband) and one slave (the wife). Under the feminists' onslaught, the old rigid forms of marriage have begun to change, especially among younger couples. Some of the new roles assigned to husbands-and to wives-are proving to be impractical, but others may well become a permanent fixture of the New Marriage. Some marital innovators...
Riesman, on sabbatical leave at Princeton, called the rise in grades "a move away from meritocracy." He said it undermined a rigid rating of people according to intelligence...
...Viet Nam-Sammy Davis Jr. spouted enthusiasm for the Now Army. "From my Army days in the '40s to now it's unbelievable-in terms of the black and white relationship, in terms of the Army's bending the rules which used to be so rigid, in terms of regarding men as individuals as much as they can. I saw certain things yesterday I wish I could see at home in terms of people, just peopleness. They have been out there and faced the same thing. Maybe that's what we need to do at home...
Died. The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...