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There have been many other changes. Perhaps the most important is that she has learned to speak up without the fear (yes, it was a fear) of being called a ballbuster, an aggressive or castrating female (the counterpart tag of male chauvinist pig). She has also learned to assert herself, insist on certain rights-mostly around the house, true, but that's where, after all, she spends most of her time. She asks-does not demand-that her children, her husband pitch in, share some of the trivial drudgery: she swears that gone are the days when, the country...
...Viet Nam's delegate to the talks, appeared on a split Face the Nation show with Secretary of State William Rogers to denounce Nixon for revealing the secret meetings with Kissinger. Nixon's act, said Thuy, is a "serious obstacle" to an agreement. Thuy's U.S. counterpart, William Porter, canceled this week's Paris session in protest against a three-day anti-American international convocation, called principally by a group of French leftist organizations, at nearby Versailles. Some observers at recent meetings had got the impression that some slight accommodation might be possible, but last week...
...WORKER. To a factory worker in Detroit or even Moscow, the life of his counterpart in Shanghai or Peking would appear uncomfortably lackluster. But as the peasant in Honan sees it, his comrade assigned to an engine plant or machine shop is blessed with unimaginable luxury. Not only are wages higher than on the farms, but there are the attractions of city life -cinemas, stores, parks, athletic events -that provide some brightness to China's overall blue-gray drabness...
Even Swift's "excremental vision" has its counterpart in Oldenburg. Any object - from a typewriter eraser to a toothpaste tube, from an ice bag to an electric plug - can be seized and turned into a visible metaphor of the body's shapes and functions...
Both teams had numerous scoring opportunities. The outstanding players in the game were Crimson goalie Joe Bertagna, and his Quaker counterpart, John Marks, Bertagna finished up with 31 saves, and Marks...