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...every ten teen-age girls in the U.S. becomes pregnant. Eagle Point's city councilwoman Janice Sether doesn't "like sex education in health class." Where does she prefer it-at the abortion clinic...
Also in Ohio, Cleveland's Democratic city councilwoman Mary Rose Oakar, 36, took over the vacated seat of Democrat James V. Stanton (who lost in his try for a Senate nomination) without Republican opposition. Oakar won her decisive Democratic primary nomination by pointing out that among several major candidates, she was the only non-lawyer and the only woman...
Graham's aides last night predicted that the final count would show a 3-to-2 win for the black city councilwoman, and on "strong evidence" from important wards gave their candidate 6600 votes to Toomey...
...that the Farmington board of directors would reject the vote. But after the board failed to do so, Hereford said he could no longer accept the club's "segregationist policy" and quit. Eighteen other club members joined Hereford in handing in their resignations, including Jill Rinehart, a Charlottesville councilwoman and wife of the president of Farmington...
...used only in quoted material or in discussing the term itself. The stylebook decrees that some words whose original form includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that are obviously disparaging." Examples: doll, weaker sex, the little woman and, in certain contexts, words like housewife, divorcee and sculptress...