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...subject of this distaff dissent is a controversial marriage-reform bill proposed by the Tanzanian government. Among the East African country's 12.5 million people, Christian monogamy has traditionally existed side by side with Moslem and pagan polygamy. The situation is fraught with inconsistencies and injustices. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, explains: "We have always accepted that Moslems can have four wives, and tribalists can have ten or 20. But if I should take a second wife, I could be prosecuted. Yet the police constable who arrested me might be a polygamist. The prosecutor...
...Distaff Power. The Politburo selections are equally intriguing. Besides the five Standing Committee members, 16 ordinary members were named-and nine were from the military. Among other Politburocrats were Chiang Ching and Yeh Chun, the wives of Mao and Lin, five holdovers from the previous Politburo, and Yao Wenyuan, rumored...
...more than match them. The gun-run is naturally heaviest in areas of recent riots. In Michigan, Dearborn's racist Mayor Orville L. Hubbard exhorted townsfolk to "take up arms, learn to shoot and be a dead shot." Close to 500 Dearborn women are taking regular pistol practice; similar distaff firearm courses are under way from Redondo Beach, Calif., to DeKalb County, Georgia, to Dallas, where 1,000 women have completed a pistol program in recent months...
...clan from Rose to Freckles, the Senator's Irish spaniel, has swarmed across the landscape to pursue voters. While Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith and Brother Teddy manage campaign logistics and strategy, Sisters Jean and Pat, Sister-in-Law Joan and Cousin Polly Fitzgerald descend upon the distaff electorate. Materfamilias Rose is one of the wonders of the campaign. "Look at those legs," marveled a 70-year-old man in Los Angeles. Bobby kids her by telling audiences: "My mother has worked in every campaign since McKinley...
Norwegian merchant ships have long carried women radio operators, but last week a radically different distaff arrangement was added to the fleet. For the first time, two girls shipped out not in the radio shack but as deck hands or, so to speak, as ordinary seawomen. Other women have been qualified in France and Britain to fly commercial airplanes, and SAS may soon hire its first woman pilot. As women become more emancipated and labor shortages give them a suitable entree, females around the world are turning up in every kind of job from aircraft mechanic to road-construction crew...