Word: calif
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...most of this century, of course, but for decades they were effectively shunted off into a kind of political ladies' auxiliary. "We've certainly proved we can take on the overworked, underpaid jobs in local government," says Ann Evans, the $3,000-a-year mayor of Davis, Calif., "but this raises the ante. It is a symbolic acceptance of women in leadership positions." Declares Eleanor Smeal, former NOW President: "Never again will women embark on a major campaign without being taken seriously. No longer will women be the sideshow. The women's movement has at last entered...
...passengers delayed for two hours on the runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, awaiting takeoff clearance from air-traffic controllers. Most travelers do not know precisely who is to blame for such holdups. But Skirlick, who is an air-traffic controller at the busy Palmdale, Calif, traffic center, lays the responsibility squarely on the doorstep of his employer, the Federal Aviation Administration. Says he: "They are simply trying to do more work with fewer people, and the technology is not keeping...
Elderhostelers are generally seeking adventure, but many arrive with specific goals. Nearly 60% have college degrees, and 30% have been schoolteachers. Edwin Slocum, 91, a former accountant from Van Nuys, Calif., took a computer course at Whittier. His reason: "When my grandchildren begin talking about computers they lose me fast." Estella Bagnell, 85, a former bookkeeper now living in Tampa, took a course in writing family history at Rollins College in Florida because she wants to put her research on the genealogy of the Bagnell family into narrative form for her eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren...
ARRESTED. Stephen Bingham, 42, fugitive lawyer charged with five counts of murder and one of conspiracy for aiding an alleged 1971 prison-breakout attempt by black Radical George Jackson in which the prisoner, two trusties and three guards were killed; in San Rafael, Calif. Bingham turned himself in, and denied smuggling a gun to Jackson, who had been in San Quentin awaiting trial for murder. Bingham said he had fled because he was convinced that he could not get a fair trial...
DIED. George Oppen, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet of spare, free-form verse; in Sunnyvale, Calif. An active leftist, he gave up poetry for 28 years for political involvement, living by publishing the work of such poets as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and by laboring as a tool-and-die maker and furniture designer...