Word: agee
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Celebrated Congresswoman from Texas ... Possible Attorney General or U.N. Ambassador . . . Age 40 . . . Commanding presence and great, bell-like voice . . . Daughter of a Houston Baptist preacher . . . Debating champ at Texas Southern University; graduated magna cum laude, 1956 . . . LL.B. from Boston University Law School, 1959 . . . Practiced civil law until entering politics in 1966 . . . Shrewd and moderate . . . In 1973 became first black woman ever sent to Congress from South . . . Won national acclaim on House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings . . . Team player: loyally supports conservative Democrats when called...
Candidate for Attorney General . . . As a circuit-court judge on U.S. Court of Appeals is ranking woman jurist in the U.S. . . . Age 51 . . . Born in Denver . . . Graduated from University of New Mexico and Stanford Law . . . For ten years practiced law with her husband in Los Angeles . . . Was special consultant to California attorney general on Colorado River litigation . . . Was appointed to Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1961, to California Court of Appeals in 1966, and in 1968 to her current assignment-one that takes her from Los Angeles through nine states (including Hawaii and Alaska) and Guam . . . Has generally liberal...
...aggressive, intellectual voice for equal treatment before the law . . . Could be Attorney General . . . Age 48 ... U.S. district judge for Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1964 . . . Also teaches sociology and law at University of Pennsylvania . . . Graduate of Antioch and Yale Law . . . Member of Lyndon Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence . . . Disagreed with majority of that body, specifically by endorsing nonviolent civil disobedience, without which "probably no major civil rights statute would have been enacted...
Harvard economist and former Labor Secretary who is union leaders' choice to be rehired for that post . . . Age 62 . . . Educated at Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge . . . Has taught at Harvard since 1938; rose to dean of faculty...
Economist and vice president of Duke University, where she earned Ph.D Age 55 . . . Under consideration for Labor Secretary . . . If chosen, expected to press for such programs as job training for unemployed youth and equal pay and child-care centers for working women . . . Specialist in labor-force demographics and working women . . . Vice president, National Council on the Aging . . . First woman director of New York Stock Exchange, J.C. Penney Co. . . . Also on three other corporate boards...