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...politics. U.S. women have less political representation than their counterparts in many other Western democracies, and indeed less than they used to have. Maine's Margaret Chase Smith is the sole female Senator, and there are only eleven women compared with 422 men, in what New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug has derisively called the House of Semi-Representatives (she was also referring to its small number of young people and members of minority groups). In appointive positions, the record is even worse: women hold only 1.5% of the 3,796 top federal jobs. As a promising first step...
...certain how statehood could be achieved. New York City's impetuous Congresswoman Bella Abzug has opened a drive to ask the city's voters in November to approve a resolution petitioning Congress to admit the city to the Union as a state. The New York legislature would also have to give its approval, a most improbable happening since the state would lose roughly half of its annual revenue. On the other hand, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton contends that the rest of the state would say "good riddance" to the city and its troubles. Sutton suggests that...
...Metropolitan Opera is first and foremost a singers' house, or what the managers on 57th Street like to call a bella voce theater. Its basic operating premise is that what counts is glorious singing. The only trouble is that no amount of fine vocalizing will make an opera like Otello or Wozzeck work without a steady, compelling baton on the podium. Yet it is difficult to get, let alone keep, good conductors in a house where singing stars have virtual veto power over their maestros. As a result, good conducting has been almost as elusive...
...request of Rep. Bella S. Abzug (D-N. Y.), Capitol police chief J. M. Powell pulled back a line of police barring demonstrators from the Capitol building at 1:45 p. m., and protestors poured onto the east steps of the House wing, chanting and singing antiwar verses...
John Corwin and Bob Gippin, the first-year Law students who wrote and distributed the petition, said yesterday that they plan to contact a sympathetic member of the House-possibly Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) or Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.)-to have the petition introduced in Congress as a bill...