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Moreover, the bridge authorities make it easy for the jumper. Roving uniformed patrols peel an occasional eye for prospects. But, principally for aesthetic reasons, the kind of barrier that radically reduced leaps from Manhattan's Empire State Building, for instance, has never blighted the beauty of the Golden Gate. This horrifies Shneidman, who has prodded the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, the agency responsible, to withdraw its invitation to suicide. He rejects the board's argument that if it stops the bridge jumper, he will only go somewhere else to take his life...
THEY started off well enough. Led by Jeannette Rankin, a give-'em-hell Montana suffragette, women cracked the congressional sex barrier in 1916, four years before they won the right to vote. Since then, things have slowed down a bit. In the last half-century, only 75 women have been elect ed or appointed to seats on Capitol Hill...
...Government aimed at 1,000 more construction jobs for blacks, but Philadelphia contractors so far this year have hired and trained only 60. The greatest barrier appears to be a legal one. Opponents of the plan are testing it in the courts, ironically arguing that it violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial quotas in hiring. A federal district court in Philadelphia recently ruled that the plan's goals do not amount to illegal quotas; the decision is being appealed. Until the legal uncertainties are resolved, contractors and Government agencies are unlikely to pay much attention...
Rock these days seems to be retreating from the sound barrier. The mind-blasting chaos of California-bred acid is still to be heard, and almost everywhere the unmistakable beat goes on. At the same time, though, rock has become more personal, curious and deep, largely through the work of a new breed of solo troubadours who write their own stuff and occasionally deliver it in person. The handy and somewhat disparaging label for this new style of defused, intimate and literate pop is "salon rock." No one in the business, however, puts down the genuine talents...
Backyard Problems. Despite successes, Audrey Cohen's graduates were at first blocked by the very degree barrier that she set out to surmount. Often they advanced a rung or two in their new jobs and then stalled. The reason, along with professional jealousy, was that C.H.S. had no power to grant formal degrees. So two years ago Mrs. Cohen petitioned the New York State Board of Regents for a charter permitting her school to issue the same Associate in Arts degree available at the state's community colleges. "Everybody is so busy trying to mimic Harvard," she contended...