Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thurs., Nov. 10 Purex Special for Women (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "The Trapped Housewife," a documentary dramatization and subsequent panel discussion pondering the distaff "disenchantment syndrome...
...newsmen: "I have no comment on what Mrs. Kennedy wears or says." Then she commented anyhow: "I don't criticize other women, and I never have. I buy my clothes off the racks of various stores around Washington and sometimes, in New York." Pressed further, she provided a distaff version of one of the week's most popular political lines: "I don't think clothes are an issue...
...very likely go down in history as Ladies' Day, with women voters outnumbering men for the first time in any peacetime presidential election. Both presidential candidates and their wives are coolly judged for their sex appeal (consensus: Kennedy has the edge for male honors, Pat Nixon for the distaff); both are keenly aware of female interest in heavyweight issues (Kennedy, economic security; Nixon stressing peace) ; both have staffed party organizations with more women officials and workers than ever before...
...psychiatrists to work on a dramatic new research program. Bobby is the president but Sarge Shriver is the managing director of the foundation and each of the brothers and brothers-in-law is a member of the board, but the prime movers of the foundation come from the distaff side: Pat Lawford runs the West Coast operations, Eunice Shriver is in charge of the Midwest, and Jean Smith is responsible for the East Coast. Says Founder Joe Kennedy: "Everybody has a locality...
...Maine's prouder political distinctions is that it boasts the only woman in the U.S. Senate, Republican Margaret Chase Smith, 62. Handsome Maggie Smith is up for re-election this fall-and she faces the fight of her political life. But whoever wins, Maine will not lose its distaff distinction. Last week the Democratic minority leader of the Maine legislature, popular, plump Lucia Cormier, 48, tossed her bonnet in the ring to oppose Maggie Smith's third-term bid. For the first time in U.S. history, two women are to scrap for a Senate seat...