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...raising their fingers in the peace sign. Though they elected not to testify in their own behalf, the defendants' cause was stridently reiterated in the Easter week demonstrations in Harrisburg that attracted speakers ranging from Alger Hiss and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy to Daniel Ellsberg and Congresswoman Bella Abzug. "We have a feeling that we are celebrating something of a victory," said Sister Elizabeth. Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani scholar and the only non-Catholic defendant, announced to cheering supporters: "My plans are to get out of here as soon as I can and go into the streets to protest...
Someone gave him a derby, and he mugged with it, a finger held under his nose doing service for the famed mustache. Congresswoman Bella Abzug leaned over his table, clutching her floppy pink hat. "The audience, the audience!" he exclaimed to her. "Everybody was in the audience!" Actor Zero Mostel loomed up and kissed him from the depths of an enormous beard, Actress Claire Bloom, one of his leading ladies (Limelight, 1952), appeared at the table. Roulette Goddard-another protegee (Modern Times, 1936) and his third ex-wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with...
...going after any man," insisted New York's flamboyant Congresswoman Bella Abzug. "I have only one man I go after: Martin Abzug, my husband." After making that perfectly clear, Bella officially announced that she would go after her old friend William Fitts Ryan in the June 20 Democratic primary. The reason: the legislature had drawn up new boundaries and abolished Bella's Manhattan district, forcing her to choose between withdrawal and friendship. Said Ryan's office: "We're very surprised and disappointed. She's some friend...
...trouble spotting Bella Abzug, beaming belligerently from under her familiar hat. Or Gloria Steinem in her granny glasses and jeans. But who was that lady in fluttering chiffon who looked as if she might have walked in from another era? None other than Lenore Romney, wife of George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She quickly made it clear that she was very much a part of the scene. She told the women in the audience to get hip to politics. She cracked an antisexist joke: "After God created Adam, he looked him over and said: 'I think...
...does admire them. Shirley, Florynce, Bella, Betty, Gloria, Germaine, Kate. And when one of them comes to town, she will arrange, often with great difficulty, to go and hear her speak. She will make the complicated arrangements for the sitter to come and cover the home front for her and "liberate" her for a few hours. (This is the context in which that word is mainly used in her life...