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...school is a woman. Female attorneys are no longer considered "a bizarre thing," as Shirley Hufstedler, Secretary of Education under Jimmy Carter, recalls they Eleanor Holmes Norton were when she was one of two women graduating from Stanford University's law school in 1949 ("It was a bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel...
...result is traffic jams, a 24-hour institution. Driving to the hotel from the airport in the early afternoon, we hit bumper-to-bumper on the L.A. Freeway. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Perhaps I'd better explain that. I flew out to L.A. for the Fourth of July weekend to attend a wedding. Now, I have to admit, I am what people out West like to call an Eastern Bastard: I don't know how to ride a horse, I've never shot a ground squirrel, and I think Mount Washington is a big mountain...
...content, Richard Nixon believes that "television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy." Nixon is a bruised witness, but he does have a point. Trying to compact a day's debate into 47 seconds and give it drama, a television reporter will pit the loudest advocate of a cause against its most outraged opponent. Onscreen, each will be shown talking away, but the words you hear are the reporter's, explaining what the story is really about. At last, the sound picks up a snippet of the speaker's own words. This irritating parody...
...Years noise makers, wallets, scarves, candles, fake rocks ("get your rocks off," $5.95), toy pinball machines, tambourines, slippers, sweatshirts, string ties, playing cards, punching bags, toy binoculars, pin cushions, aprons, picture puzzles, bullwhips, shopping bags, roulette wheels, boomerangs, pencil cases, piggybanks, pedro posters, sun hats, trays, wind chimes, buttons, bumper stickers, inflatable Pedros, horns, spoon racks, trivets, cigarette cases, two-piece donkey sets, cosmetic cases, pens, cups, and dog t-shirts...
...creator of Boston's Quincy Market. A $21.5 million aquarium containing more than 5,000 specimens will open in September. As the city's crumbling row houses have been refurbished, so has the spirit of its citizens. A local version of "I Love New York" appears on bumper stickers and buttons around town: BALTIMORE IS BEST...