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Texas Touts Terrible Anti-Abortion Law

Five Supreme Court Conservatives Won’t Block It. Most other Republican states plan to copy Texas’ anti-abortion lead as soon as possible.
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If It’s Public Radio, Who’s Frank Mankiewicz?

If It’s Public Radio, Who’s Frank Mankiewicz?

Either he is a ‘short, dumpy, rumpled man,’ or he is a ‘tall, lean and pantherlike.’
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Claudius coin (and role) bring great good luck to Derek Jacobi

Claudius coin (and role) bring great good luck to Derek Jacobi

The Washington Star, August 2 1978: NEW YORK — When Derek Jacobi, visiting briefly from London, arrived at WABC-TV recently for a guest…
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A Small Fashion Protest

A Small Fashion Protest

“These long floating chiffons make any woman — small, tall, fat or skinny — pretty. But at $600 I could buy a color TV.”
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“I Won’t Let Parkinson’s Define Me” Is John Creveling’s Vow to Himself

“I Won’t Let Parkinson’s Define Me” Is John Creveling’s Vow to Himself

His beguiling book, “More Than What You See,” illustrates with a profusion of his poetry, art, and photos.
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Women’s Detention Chief Thinks It’s a Crime to Jail Prostitutes

Women’s Detention Chief Thinks It’s a Crime to Jail Prostitutes

Since it is a criminal offence, she says, let the Johns be jailed, too.
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Diva Beverly Sills Deals with Her Retarded Offspring, Encourages Other Mothers Between Engagements

Diva Beverly Sills Deals with Her Retarded Offspring, Encourages Other Mothers Between Engagements

“Ask the guy that owns one,” she says, taking off on a current ad line, as she helps others make the best of many lives
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Indian Activist Reminds People They Have Civil and Treaty Rights

Indian Activist Reminds People They Have Civil and Treaty Rights

While in wake of Pine Ridge killings 200 armed officers swarm reservation, intimidating innocent families
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Sex Therapist Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan Promotes Love

Sex Therapist Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan Promotes Love

But she takes a pragmatic, psychiatric approach to sex problems
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My Cousin the President, From Chicago to Guyana

My Cousin the President, From Chicago to Guyana

The Washington Post, December 21, 1997: When my cousin Janet Jagan was elected president of Guyana last week, the wire service stories…
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Evie Symingon’s Last Radiant Beads Slipped Away On a Beautiful Day Before Christmas

Evie Symingon’s Last Radiant Beads Slipped Away On a Beautiful Day Before Christmas

A beloved supper club singer, she had given up a glamorous career to become a beloved wife and mother.
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Beauty, Brains, a Doctorate in Philosophy, and a Life in Poverty

Beauty, Brains, a Doctorate in Philosophy, and a Life in Poverty

A victim of sex discrimination and bad luck, Dr. Alice Koller was the only woman in her Harvard graduating class of all men who didn’t get…
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Pat Taylor Runs the D.C. Women’s Jail, Says Very Few Get Rehabilitated

Pat Taylor Runs the D.C. Women’s Jail, Says Very Few Get Rehabilitated

With twice as many prisoners as cells, they’re piled in piles them with two or three others, causing “constant turmoil.”
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“Oh Christ, This place is Falling Apart,” Says Maureen Stapleton, Sitting in Her Worn, Warm Living…

“Oh Christ, This place is Falling Apart,” Says Maureen Stapleton, Sitting in Her Worn, Warm Living…

In a house dress, with no make-up, her luminous beauty shines through a graying day
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Czech Olympic Star Discus Thrower Finally Finds Freedom in the US

Czech Olympic Star Discus Thrower Finally Finds Freedom in the US

But Olga had to leave ”baby sitter” husband, shed a mink coat, win an election
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Frankly 63, Gray-haired Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald Eases Into Mother, Even Grandmother Roles

Frankly 63, Gray-haired Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald Eases Into Mother, Even Grandmother Roles

The stage, she says, has always been kind to her
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Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s seriously running for President

Rep. Shirley Chisholm’s seriously running for President

She says she’s “a dark horse, literally, a long shot” but she believes it’s possible.
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As a Losing Presidential Candidate, Shirley Chisholm is Still Triumphant

As a Losing Presidential Candidate, Shirley Chisholm is Still Triumphant

She is “elated” by the response she’s received throughout her run — from women, from blacks, from Chicanos, from native Americans, from…
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Gloria Steinem Says the Sexual Caste System Must Go!

Gloria Steinem Says the Sexual Caste System Must Go!

She figures is will take a feminine revolution and “we should be able to do it in a couple of hundred years.”
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Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and His Lawyer Wife, Cathy, are an Equal Rights Couple

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and His Lawyer Wife, Cathy, are an Equal Rights Couple

The Washington Star-News, February 3, 1974: Justice Douglas, who often takes over the cooking, champions his wife’s career. Cathy…
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You Can’t Keep These Retired Congresswomen Down!

You Can’t Keep These Retired Congresswomen Down!

Clare Booth Luce first became a women’s champion flinging ERA handbills from a First World War plane, while working for Suffragette Alice…
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Feminist Author Erica Jong Writes About Women’s Sexuality

Feminist Author Erica Jong Writes About Women’s Sexuality

She says she’s not an activist. But she does let two male authors have it when they rant that feminists castrate men.
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Pragmatic Role Model Willy Hardy Is Leader in Aiding the Impoverished

Pragmatic Role Model Willy Hardy Is Leader in Aiding the Impoverished

Widowed, she has a job with the D.C. Department of Environmental Services. She has 16 children — six of her own, ten of whom she found on…
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First Woman News Anchor Barbara Walters Faces Ridicule, Resentment, “Terrible Barrage of…

First Woman News Anchor Barbara Walters Faces Ridicule, Resentment, “Terrible Barrage of…

And co-anchor Harry Reasoner is not tickled to death to share his top job with anyone, let alone a woman
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In an Interview, Jazz Great Ella Fitzgerald Warms Up Talking About Jam Sessions

In an Interview, Jazz Great Ella Fitzgerald Warms Up Talking About Jam Sessions

On a recent ocean liner jazz tour, she jammed with Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson. “We had a ball!” she beamed.
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