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Under the British Sex Discrimination Act of 1975, the British government altered the terms of Cecil Rhodes's will to allow women to compete for the scholarship his legacy endows. Thirteen of this year's 32 total winners are women...
When British Colonialist Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, he left the world two legacies: a South African mining empire to keep the women of the world in diamonds and a bequest to use the profits therefrom to educate at Oxford University, "the best men for the world's fight." But times change. And this year, to conform with a 1975 act by the British Parliament, Rhodes scholarships are being awarded for the first time to women. Among the 32 American winners named last week, 13 are female. One, Yale's Sarah Deutsch, concedes her image of a Rhodes...
...Cabinet choice was easier for Jimmy Carter to make than that of Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus, 45, for Interior Secretary. He was the only man ever considered for the job, said Carter. A flamboyant, maverick Democrat, Andrus has built his political career on the bedrock of espousing conservation causes−a subject that much interests Carter. Andrus gained his experience in a mountainous, 83,550-sq.-mi. state, where nearly two-thirds of the land is under federal control and hence subject to intensive pressures from those who want to exploit its natural resources...
...shame. He's the best elected official I've ever met." Carter also said that his Secretary of Agriculture would "likely" come from the Midwest and his Secretary of the Interior from the West. This increased speculation that Minnesota Representative Bob Bergland would head Agriculture and Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus, Interior...
...CECIL D. ANDRUS...