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...Congress recognized that equal employment status does not mean equal rights, and Smith's delaying tactic failed. Now women can apply for jobs from stevedore to sewer cleaner-though one exemption of Title VII permits employers to disqualify women where sex is a bona fide "occupational qualification." The Title nowhere defines what such a disqualification might be. "What do we do," asked an airline personnel manager, "when a girl walks in here with the credentials and asks for a pilot's job?" The possibilities are boundless. Must Cleveland's Exclusively Girls Employment Service change its name...
...vote of 32 to 15, precisely the two-thirds majority that was needed, the Oklahoma senate last week ousted State Supreme Court Justice Napoleon Bona parte Johnson, 74, on impeachment charges made by the state house of representatives (TIME, April 16). The case hinged on the testimony of former Justice Nelson S. Corn, 81, who was granted immunity after admitting that in 1957 he took a $150,000 bribe to mastermind the 6-2 reversal of a state tax claim against a shady investment company...
...Brien, who with marginal success impersonate three real-life directors of Synanon House. Most of the time they appear to be running out-of-town auditions for Actors Studio. The movie's vacuous approach to a heartbreakingly grim subject is underscored by the presence in the film of bona fide former addicts, asked to do nothing whatever that might keep a misguided movie from going...
...Yellow Kid, considered by many to be the first bona-fide comic strip, contributed the phrase "yellow journalism" to the language. Wearing a bright yellow nightgown on which words were scrawled (forerunners of later balloons), the jug-eared little tough got away with sadism that is no longer permitted. He bashed his pals over the head with a golf club, pummeled a little Negro boy while a goat nibbled his woolly hair. Other kids followed: the Katzenjammers ("Mit dose kidds, society iss nix"), Buster Brown, Little Nemo, and the long-gone Kinder Kids, a strip exquisitely drawn by the cubist...
Cept: But occasionally TIME pulls out a bona fide cept...