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...began a new career as a sales-clerk at Macy's department store in Manhattan. He was then 56, but in his spare time he also earned a high school diploma and went on to college courses. He was 68 when he finally got his degree as a bachelor of business administration from CUNY'S Baruch College. At 74, after 18 years and an excellent record at Macy's, he finally retired and asked for his pension...
...MATTINGLY II, U.S.N., 36, the COmmand-module pilot, has been the most conscientious member of the Apollo 16 crew during preflight training. With good reason, he leaves nothing to chance. Shortly before he was scheduled to make his first space flight aboard Apollo 13 two years ago, the longtime bachelor (he finally married in 1970) was accidentally exposed to the German measles. Because Mattingly had never had the disease or been immunized against it, NASA replaced him as command-module pilot rather than risk the first case of measles in space. Mattingly, who stayed behind and helped devise the emergency...
...only one who's complaining; I'm not nuts." Norma Johnson, 37, snares the frustration over the banality of small-town social life with Sinclair Lewis' Main Street rebel, Carol Kennicott. She has spent eight years in night classes working toward her bachelor's and master's degrees. "I got to be age 30 and thought, 'Is this all there is-the bridge and socials and on and on?' I went back to school. I got a lot of cracks from the neighbors. They'd say, 'And what are you going...
...that the opposition is giving up. A Roman Catholic law professor at Fordham University, Robert Byrn, a bachelor, had himself declared the legal guardian of all unborn fetuses whose mothers were awaiting abortions in municipal hospitals in New York. He sought to halt abortions only in public hospitals. Byrn won in the first court round, but abortions continued while the state appealed the decision. The professor then lost before the appeals court...
Women also get substantially less scholarship and financial aid-$518 annually on the average for women, $760 for men. And although more women than ever received bachelor's degrees in 1970 (344,465), the percentage of recipients who were female (43%) was actually lower than...