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...Schlesinger Library's manuscript users, she found four subjects--education and educated women, employment and working class women, feminism and suffrage, and the woman and her body--overwhelmingly sought after at the Institute. She says the figures indicate the Library's current resources as well as the drift of public interest, and that some of the lesser studied subjects, like religion, abolition and immigrant women, may be more popular elsewhere...
Quite a chore to undertake in the best of times, let alone just seven weeks before a U.S. presidential election. But, as Kissinger argues, the risk of doing nothing is much greater. Unchecked, southern Africa will almost certainly drift into racial war. Whether the Soviet Union or any other foreign power could exploit such a phenomenon for long is doubtful, but the potential for short-term mischief making is awesome. Small wonder then that Kissinger is eager for one more crusade before he quits...
...bold reach to the left in hopes that he might pick up some of the "soft" Ford delegates in such states as Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The calculated risk was that Reagan's conservative ideologues would grumble, but finally stay with him, while moderates would drift away from Ford. By the end of a tumultuous week, it was clear that the last-gasp Reagan strategy had failed. He had managed to hang on to his most conservative delegates, despite their screams of pain. But he had not achieved the ultimate goal of the whole operation: to shake...
Backstop Scheme. Some insurance officials feel that D.C. Superintendent Wallach let the situation drift too long before taking action. Says one executive: "It's inconceivable that a company of GEICO's size could run up such a loss in one year without Wallach saying 'Hey, fellas, what's going on here?' " In May GEICO directors ousted Chairman Norman L. Gidden, 59. New Chairman John J. Byrne, 44, has pulled GEICO out of New Jersey-a dismally unprofitable state-and pledged to trim by 20% the 2.4 million auto policies in force (there...
...stream of speeches, position papers and interviews, the Democratic front runner has expounded his ideas on all of the major, and some of the minor, questions of economic policy: jobs, prices, taxes, energy, even regulation of the trucking industry. No one who pays attention can miss his general drift: Carter is a mainstream Democrat, who offers primarily an updated version of the economic policies of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. His keynote: a major effort to reduce unemployment, principally by Government stimulation of the private economy...