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...rights. The sweeping simplicity of the amendment?"Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex"?made many voters, especially women, nervous. The anti-ERA lobby, led by Phyllis Schlafly?a conspicuously liberated woman who at 51 is working for a law degree???conjured up the prospect of unisex public toilets, an end to alimony, women forced into duty as combat soldiers. In fact, the effects of the ERA are not known, and some constitutional lawyers argue that it would be better to rely on specific antidiscrimination laws rather than on an amendment...
...Senate majority whip, the Administration added his name to the list submitted to the American Bar Association for prior consultation. The gesture considerably heated up the outcry against the entire slate, since Byrd was once an active organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, had only earned his law degree???from night school?in 1963, and had never been admitted...
...diplomaism continues to be a national disease. Business and Government alike insist upon unnecessary credentials on the part of job applicants. This not only creates a new caste of unemployables?the luckless but qualified people who lack the right degree???but it tends to confuse the real mission of education...
Deep Shock. Strictly speaking, it may be premature to use the word defeat. Still, no matter how the war ends, it is bound to entail some degree???perhaps a high degree???of American loss. What Brewster calls "this wound" will probably provoke deep shock among those many Americans who have nothing in their experience to prepare them for national failure. Instead of making pronouncements about not being the first U.S. President to lose a war, instead of faulting the opposition at home for his difficulties in Southeast Asia, Nixon would perform a better service by preparing the country...
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