Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Treasurer of Texas: "The first thing I thought of was not winning, in the political sense, but of my two daughters. To think of the numbers of young women who can now aspire to anything!" At a National Organization for Women press conference in Washington, Democratic Leader Sharon Pratt Dixon was so carried away that she started to pronounce the name of the head of the ticket as "Walter Ferra..." She corrected it to Walter Mondale amid a gale of laughter...
...Greg Dixon, the former national secretary of the Moral Majority, claims religious grounds for opposing both the Equal Rights Amendment and the idea of running a woman for Vice President. "I think God has a plan for men to be responsible for affairs of government," he says. "The Bible just teaches that the head of the man is Christ, the head of the woman is man, and that's God's order of things. God has made the woman, biologically and physiologically, keeper of the home. It is rare to find a woman to stand up to the rigors...
Hart plans to stress the "electability issue" in future primaries and with delegates who may be wavering by convention time. "I love to ask these delegates to name me a single state south of the Mason-Dixon line or west of the Mississippi River that Walter Mondale can carry," says Hart Adviser Patrick Caddell. "Their eyes widen with fright. They can't name a single one." The pitch has just one drawback: it is not clear that Hart would do much better. Exit polls in the North Carolina and Ohio primaries revealed voters defecting to Reagan at almost...
Yesterday afternoon at Palmer Dixon, the Harvard women's tennis team trounced Yale, 8-1, for the first time in Ivy League history...
...Dixon Courts...