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Several British papers carried a report Monday that Britain's largest supermarket chain has asked fruit growers to supply it with smaller melons after research indicated that housewives subconsciously compared them to the size of their breasts.
This is odd because transvestites are openly accepted in Thai society, and male homosexuals are not considered—as they are by some Japanese housewives I have met—as wanting to cross dress.
In colonial days, housewives typically did spinning, weaving, and tailoring for the family.
To frame the question less contentiously: Did the scattered theologians, bureaucrats, army officers, and (in one case) ordinary housewives who defied Hitler act more as isolated individuals than as a concerted movement?
Apparently, the Times couldn't find any women who are secretaries or housewives.