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...Connor graduated from law school in 1952, the only job she was offered by major West Coast law firms was that of legal secretary. Now, if a firm wants the top of the law school class, it has to skim women along with men in the cream of the crop; 30.2% of 1981's graduates were women...
Indeed, Hollywood may be bent on disclosing more than anybody could possibly absorb about the stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...
...convinced that the great investment-at least $40 billion in the early stages alone-would pay off handsomely. They predict grain production would be boosted by as much as 30 million to 60 million metric tons a year-equivalent to 18% to 35% of the U.S.S.R.'s current crop. They also point out that the northern waters would revitalize two major inland seas, the Caspian and the Aral, whose levels have been dropping rapidly because of irrigation needs...
...would be no guarantee that progress on the nuclear front would lead to a greater willingness to compromise on non-nuclear confrontations. One suspects that the tension in the Middle East will never above altogether, that the absurdities such as the one going on in the South Atlantic will crop up as long as national sovereignty exists. But we have a responsibility, perhaps above all others, to shrink the nuclear peril. Arms reduction will help that cause. We must...
...stressed equal access as a broad goal for higher education when it sent a letter to President Bok criticizing his annual report, which examined what the federal government's role should be in higher education. That issue, most officials say, underlies the current cuts controversy and will make it crop up again every few years until it is resolved...