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...pity is that one should wait forty-five minutes for that feeling. The prelude to the ignition of the women's movement, which covers the greater part of Act I, is slow and spotty: spanning an eighteen-year period in the lives of Richard and Emmy Pankhurst, it attempts to set the stage historically and emotionally for the arrival of women on the move. The trouble is, we're forced to tally up short scene after short scene, like votes in Parliament, to get the historical picture and see the Pankhursts...
RECOGNITION OF THE NEED for some sort of shield for the press since the Supreme Court stripped reporters of confidentiality last July has affected legislatures throughout the country. Eighteen states already have shield laws on the books, and at least a dozen others, Massachusetts included, are moving in that direction. The laws vary in scope, and the current debate in this state over absolute versus partial shields is typical. Several bills are coming before Congress this session, with comparable variance of language and terms. The foremost is a two-tiered approach set forth in a bill proposed by Senator Lowell...
...hair has remained. Now all the straights sport it. The barber talks on about a world gone into reverse. Nixon has toured Communist China, which is now in the U.N. The Empire State Building is no longer the tallest building in the world. The World Trade Center is. Eighteen-year-olds can vote. The New York Giants will soon play in New Jersey. In the American League, pitchers will no longer...
...couch, filled. There were ladies with nervous lovers; ladies with the makeup and hairstyles of streetwalkers, bored, as if this was but one weekly visit among many; ladies middle aged and unmarried, with sad eyes, perhaps realizing they were losing the strings which bound their lovers: young girls, just eighteen, loud and obnoxious, travelling in hordes, cheering the one in trouble and "we hitched from Boston, only took us four hours," said to no one in particular. There were ladies married, too old to bear the children, frightened, and ladies, twenty or twenty-one, trancelike, their emotion displaced...
Hewes was once collegiate champ of her native Philippines said ranked as high as third nationally in that country. She has been playing tournament tennis for eighteen years...