Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, the arrival of the worst economic downturn since the 1930s has been particularly hard on working women. Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of New York City's Commission on Human Rights, voices a typical concern that "layoffs stemming from the recession could wipe out all the women's gains of the past five years...
Accompanied by 30 U.S. newsmen, including TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, McGovern and his wife Eleanor were given an extensive whirlwind tour of educational, health and agricultural facilities developed during the Castro regime. Cabled Hannifin: "Amiable, wisecracking and radiating charisma and confidence, Castro as usual turned up unexpectedly and unannounced, at a state agricultural farm managed by his half-brother Ramon. There he took the McGoverns in tow, riding around in his Russian-built command car (with a special rack for his Kalashnikov rifle...
...Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges for Housing, said yesterday that until the University finds out how mans transfer students will be attending Harvard next year probably in June, there will be no way to tell exactly how many River House spaces will be opened to freshmen assigned to the Quad...
Despite Marton's experiences, the complaint voiced most frequently by transfers concerns housing, not academics. The admissions office only admits transfers; Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans of Harvard and Radcliffe College for Housing, and the housing office are responsible for placing the transfers in Houses. And in the past few years, the policy has been to place them to the Quad Houses where there are more unfilled spaces. For many students the fact that the Radcliffe Houses to which they are assigned place them at 29 Garden Street only adds insult to injury "I came to Harvard...
...Eleanor McGovern...