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...when a "hip," young social writer could say of a very Establishment Beverly Hills party, "There was nothing radically chic about the Hudsons' last night. The women all wore bras, the gay libbers stayed home on Hollywood Boulevard, and few blacks were even present. It was just a fun party, but it was all the better...
...youth revolution has hardly touched South Milwaukee-yet. Its sons are mainly interested in hopped-up "muscle" cars. Its daughters recently won the right to wear slacks to school, but none go without bras. "Most kids in school are the quiet type," says Mary Pat Nelson, 17, a blonde senior at South Milwaukee High. About half of her class will go on to technical schools or college. A few students recently have begun using hallucinogens and amphetamines, but School Superintendent Roger Schaus dismisses the drug problem as "minimal." Still, there has been one student demonstration. It occurred last June after...
SUDDEN RUSH of newsmen to center of park, I am nearly trampled by cameraman. Betty Freidan has arrived. "No woman that I've encountered is not feeling great elation on this day," she says. The beat of Liberation Now gets louder. "Ah, they're not burning any bras; let's get out of here," a man mutters. "Flags, flags, flags for sale-look real good on television," that old man calls. A woman tries to interest the photographers in plastic playground equipment she is demonstrating. They ignore...
...Equal pay for equal work? Fight like the devil for it. Burn your bras (if you don't sag). But, please, don't deny your femininity; it is a part of your significance as a human being (it is not nearly all of your worth, although some of my sex seem to think it is). And, I beg of you, do not throw your children into day-care centers; she (he) needs you. Rearing a child is no menial task, but is too momentous to be subordinated and too important to fail. Its importance and difficulty should...
...night and attending the parties that Fairchild shuns. In fact, the entire staff of WWD is expected to keep a lookout for potential "Eye" specks, whether they regularly cover the BP scene or a trade beat like "intimate apparel" (known in the pre-Fairchild era as "girdles and bras...