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...show's unreal setting makes the reactions of the people living in it false, and nowhere is this more clearly shown than in the relationship of the Lassiters and their servants. Tuesday's episode showed Mrs. Hacker, the housekeeper, pleading with Rosamond, the youngest Lassiter daughter, not to sack the new maid. That a servant would dare to confront her employer so boldly would be unthinkable in a household of the British or American aristocracy. That a woman so recently arrived in the position of having a housekeeper would not be threatened (as Rosamond was not) by this kind...
...Government is faced with a choice between withdrawal or, as it said in one of its statements, "continuing British military involvement in Ireland, with all the loss of life, repression, and violence which that would mean." Troops Out has the support of a few M.P.s, but as one civil servant observed, it's "not very big, and not influential." He also said that he thought the British people were "apathetic," and that he didn't "think many people woule care very much if Northern Ireland became independent, joined up with Eire, or if the whole island sank into...
...President disappeared, Squeaky Fromme was shouting in her little-girl voice: "He's not a public servant! He's not a public servant!" She also cried out: "It didn't go off. Can you believe it? It didn...
...Pensacola, Fla. Though Matlovich feared he would be raped by frenzied homosexuals, the bar turned out to be a civilized place filled with airmen, blue-collar workers and middle-class professional men. He lost his virginity that night to a government civil servant. Says Matlovich: "I had never held another person in my arms, never kissed another person since I was a child except for family...
...officials, determining just what the U.S. would give in money, arms and political guarantees in exchange for Israeli concessions to Egypt. One team talked about money. Discussing political angles down the hall was another team that included Israeli Ambassador to Washington Simcha Dinitz and Mordechai Gazit, the top civil servant in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's office. An unflappable, subtle and cautious man with a pro nounced aversion to ambiguity, Gazit has been called by Henry Kissinger, not altogether kindly, "Mr. Dot-the-I's-and-Cross-the-Ts." Having left some minor loopholes in their last agreement...