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Feminists were agog. Many, even political activists, interpreted the news in intensely personal terms. Said Ann Richards, State Treasurer of Texas: "The first thing I thought of was not winning, in the political sense, but of my two daughters. To think of the numbers of young women who can now aspire to anything!" At a National Organization for Women press conference in Washington, Democratic Leader Sharon Pratt Dixon was so carried away that she started to pronounce the name of the head of the ticket as "Walter Ferra..." She corrected it to Walter Mondale amid a gale of laughter...
Women have had the right to run for office for most of this century, of course, but for decades they were effectively shunted off into a kind of political ladies' auxiliary. "We've certainly proved we can take on the overworked, underpaid jobs in local government," says Ann Evans, the $3,000-a-year mayor of Davis, Calif., "but this raises the ante. It is a symbolic acceptance of women in leadership positions." Declares Eleanor Smeal, former NOW President: "Never again will women embark on a major campaign without being taken seriously. No longer will women...
...letters to one another. (She was admitted, says Buchwald, because she won a banana-bread bake-off with another woman and also promised to make coffee and clean up.) Her friends are admiring and loyal. "There is an awful lot under the hair curlers," says one of them, Columnist Ann Landers. "She is savvy and sophisticated enough not to come across as too savvy and sophisticated...
...Ann Landers once called her for advice (on writing about divorce, a Schwartz specialty). When the Hell's Angels hired a p.r. firm to upgrade their image, Schwartz went to the party expecting anything. She reported they were wearing designer jeans and had an ice sculpture. They sent her flowers after missing an interview. Says she: "They were mortified...
...Victoria to study legal questions raised by IVF technology. The committee's report is due within two months, and with the embryos' fate hanging in the balance, its conclusions are no longer a matter of abstract theorizing. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Deborah Kaplan/Los Angeles and Ann Westmore/Melbourne