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...education, Jill Ker Conway was named the first woman president of Smith, the nation's largest women's liberal arts college (2,468 students...
Ronstadt is one of the most innovative and sophisticated country singers around. If anything can save country music from the mindless banality of the Conway Twittys and Bill Andersons who now dominate the industry, it is Ronstadt and other "progressive" country singers like Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. Teaming up with Harris, Ronstadt is by now so self-assured that she can lay back and let her partner carry half the load on "The Sweetest Gift," a touchingly simple balled about a mother who visits her son in jail, with an uncontemporary message...
...that passes for conversation on talk shows and taped variety series. "We hope to attract guests who are not normally seen on television," explains Arledge. Adds Cosell: "Are you happy with the pretaped Hollywood shows which have a floating crap game of guests with McLean Stevenson this week, Tim Conway the next week, moving between Carol Burnett and Cher?" Instead Arledge and Cosell scheduled "acts"-performers doing a full turn. ABC has money to book the best: each show is budgeted at around $250,000 and, as Howard says, "I got a lot of due bills out to people...
...president's chair, including Hunter, Wellesley, Goucher and Wheaton. Last month Smith College, the nation's largest private women's college (2,600 students)-and the school that produced Feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Sylvia Plath-installed its first woman president. She is Jill Ker Conway, 40, an Australian who grew up on a sheep ranch and obtained a Ph.D. in history from Harvard. A prime virtue of women's colleges, Conway is persuaded, is that they tend to take women's intellectual abilities and aspirations more seriously than other institutions...
...Michael Conway Bowling Green, Ohio...