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...sure that on plantation or town or colony was settled except by the aid of women," Eliot told the governor. Minutes later, though, Eliot added, "The men have to hunt and fish and plough and dig and carry wood and water, but the women must cook and wash and sew and bear and bring up the children...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: More Talk, Less Fireworks in 1880 | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...imported a car. The exercise involved three visits to the Public Security Bureau, three to the country's only insurance company, three more to the customs office. The final mandatory stop-the car must be clean before it can be licensed-was at Peking's only car wash, where the bill came to $40. Exclaimed a Chinese intellectual on hearing the story: "I'll wash that car for half the price. If I could wash just three a month, I'd make my present salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Rise of a Model Bureaucrat | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

N.U.C. students register in one of the consortium's cooperating local colleges. The TV programs are beamed from Maryland to local stations or cable systems serving Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, New York City, Pullman, Wash., State College, Pa., Moscow, Idaho, as well as Maryland, Oregon and Vermont. TV-viewing students will get credits and degrees from the college nearest them; those enrollees not served by a local college have to register with the extension division of the University of Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Degrees for Video Watchers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...seemed hope less. She was living in exile in Germany, fat, sick, impoverished, deserted by the faithful and under attack for fakery by the Society for Psychical Research. The reader feels like cheering when she turns up a few months later in London, outrageous as ever, leaking cosmological eye wash with every wheeze, as the head of a large and adoring band of occultists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Spirit | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Republicans. And, as optimists like to point out, Ford's charges are overdue after two disappointing seasons. Whether they can cash in their talent for victories over the Lions, UMass and nationally ranked UConn remains to be seen. Wednesday's results seem to indicate that Ayrault, a Seattle, Wash., native, may supply the catalyst for an often dormant offense...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A First in the Name of Tradition | 9/12/1980 | See Source »

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