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...features editor, Amy Gross -- to develop a voice that would speak to mature, contemporary women. Hypersensitive to comparisons with Lear's, she feels her feature offerings can compete with Vanity Fair's and the New Yorker's. The latter is still a stretch, although recent contributors -- including Francine du Plessix Gray and Roy Blount -- have toughened Mirabella's edge...
...found to be in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination. Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based manufacturer of automobile batteries, is just one of more than a dozen major companies -- among them, Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, General Motors and Du Pont -- that now must reconsider fetal-protection guidelines...
...affected companies made clear that they would begin searching for alternative safeguards. Du Pont health-and-safety vice president Bruce Karrh said the company would continue to inform workers about workplace hazards. "The only difference," he says, "will be that instead of us making the decision, they'll have the option." Du Pont may also consider requiring women of childbearing years to wear additional protective clothing in high-risk areas. Denise Zutz, director of corporate communication at Johnson Controls, said her firm would also "doubtless consider going back to some sort of voluntary policy," as had been the company...
...Du Pont Co. produces an acetal resin used to make the Seattle Foot, a flexible, lifelike prosthesis. Among well-satisfied customers is Bill Demby, a former high school basketball player who had both legs amputated below the knee after being caught in a rocket attack in Vietnam. In a widely broadcast Du Pont TV commercial, Demby is shown taking a jump shot in a school-yard game...
...chair of the committee and co-president of IPPNW, Bernard Lown, is also professor of cardiology in nutrition at HSPH. Another HSPH professor, Jonathan M.Mann '69, is president of the American affiliate of Medecins du Monde and the coordinator of the HSPH volunteers...