Male and Female

> Both men and women are continuing to cross traditional sex lines in employment. Recent examples:

1) As the first female deputy port warden in the U.S., Joellen Natow, 29, patrols Los Angeles harbor, checks the handling of flammable cargoes, and keeps an eye out for thieves, drug smugglers and illegal aliens. She has mastered the use of the .38-cal. revolver she carries, as well as such mysterious port argot as: "There's a camel loose in the channel; get a sea gull to pick it up." Translation: "A wharf pile is afloat; get a refuse boat to pick it up."

2) Jane Berquist of Chatham, N.J., has become one of the few female graduates of the Lycee Technique Hotelier de Paris, a government-run cooking school. Despite French prejudice against women in commercial kitchens, Berquist is employed in a restaurant near Paris. The hardest part, she says, is the physical labor: lifting 25-lb. containers of almonds, for example.

3) Described as "the best class of nurses graduated from Bellevue Hospital in 100 years," 87 New York City police and firemen were granted diplomas last week. For 2 1/2 years, they did their regular jobs by day and studied at night. Now 40 to 45 years old and with about 20 years' police and fire service behind them, most will soon retire and supplement their pensions by nursing.

> Real-life Latin lovers do not much resemble their ardent movie counterparts. That is the principal conclusion to be drawn from a survey of 1,056 Italian women by Lieta Harrison, a Sicilian writer. Harrison interviewed equal numbers of mothers and their married daughters and found the generations in agreement that "Italian men are disappointing as lovers and overbearing as husbands." One Milanese wife complained that her husband "has no passion," while a Roman wife described her spouse as "uninspiring." More than one-fourth of the wives charged that their husbands had committed adultery--and many of the younger women had responded by taking lovers of their own. Why did many others remain faithful? "I haven't betrayed him because I am stupid," explained one. Said another: "I'm always pregnant, that's why."

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