Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BETTY FORD: The Most Since Eleanor...
...ever have a march organized against her," boasted Betty Ford, 57, after a chorus of black-clad women in front of the White House chanted their disapproval of her enthusiastic lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment. Last year Betty became the most controversial?and popular?First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking out on a variety of once delicate topics. Abortion: "I feel it is the right of a human being to make her own decisions." Marijuana: "It's the type of thing that young people have to experience." The prospect of a premarital affair for her teen-age daughter...
Some TV shows can be at least as educational for the performers as the audience. Actor Edward Herrmann, who will portray President Franklin Roosevelt in a Jan. 11-12 special titled Eleanor and Franklin, was less than two years old when F.D.R. died in 1945. "Until recently, I knew very little about him," says the actor, "except that my father didn't like him and my mother did." Besides Herrmann's show, which COstars Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt, the small screen will soon show at least two more documentary dramas based on America's past. Arthur...
...became publisher of the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and she edited the women's page and had another child. When Boettiger went into the Army in World War II, Anna returned to the White House, where F.D.R. found her company more relaxing than that of her tireless mother Eleanor. Divorced in 1949 by Boettiger, who later committed suicide, Anna married Dr. James Halsted in 1952 and devoted her civic energies to women's rights and racial justice...
...Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans for housing, said yesterday all students currently on leave will receive a letter soon asking that they let the University know before February whether they will be returning for the school term beginning September...