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...daughter of a physicist, a Bryn Mawr alumna and a Radcliffe Ph.D. in economics, Rivlin, 44, is the wife of a Washington lawyer and the mother of three children-whose tasks have been lightened by housekeepers throughout her career. She became interested in economics during a summer course at Indiana University. Says she: "It seemed less fuzzy than history or political science." Short (5 ft. 2 in.) and an impeccable dresser, Rivlin is regarded by colleagues as even-tempered and firm but not stubborn...
...home on the Charles this weekend the 'Cliffe sailers also won the Coach Alumnae Regatta for Women in which each team has to enter a student, and a coach or an alumna. Junior Sarah Herrick, Kathy Angell and ski team coach Barbie Grant represented Radcliffe. Mike Horn, who coaches both squads, couldn't sail because he was with the men's team...
...Gender should not be a very important aspect of how one functions in society today," says the newly elected president of the National Organization for Women, the largest (40,000 members in 700 chapters) and most influential group in the U.S. women's liberation movement. DeCrow, a Northwestern alumna, was raised in Chicago and held a series of editorial jobs there and in New York City before moving to Syracuse in 1965. Protesting unfair wage practices toward women, she joined NOW in 1967, won a degree from Syracuse University's law school five years later...
JOYCE HABER, 41, an exceptionally literate gossip, tattles about movie stars and camp followers five times a week in the Los Angeles Times and 58 other papers. An alumna of TIME'S Beverly Hills bureau, she replaced Hedda Hopper in 1966, and West Coast wits began referring to her as Hedda Haber. At first she adopted a bitchy, initial-cluttered style ("What was Miss P.P. doing with Mr. V.V. at... ") that earned her many enemies. Later the scourge of Celluloid City dropped the initials and developed a more serious reportorial approach. In the past few weeks, for example...
...alumna of the GSD of more than 20 years ago I am greatly perturbed about the failing quality of the GSD under its present administration (for the first time by a non-architect) and demonstrated once more in the appallingly poorly organized and vacuous display of ignorance described above...