Word: eleanor
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...some ways her importance resembles that of Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady since Edith Wilson took control of the White House for more than a year during her husband Woodrow's illness. Mrs. Roosevelt acted as a traveling observer for her crippled husband as well as a partner in policymaking. She was, however, much more of an independent force than Rosalynn Carter is, publicly crusading for her own causes and making her own name. Lady Bird Johnson was also much involved in her husband's political life. "She was a partner," says Liz Carpenter. "Like...
...National Urban League; David Lizarraga, co-chairman of the National Black-Hispanic Democratic coalition; John Lyons, president of the iron workers union; David Mahoney, board chairman of Norton Simoni Inc.; Labor Secretary Ray Marshall; Lloyd McBride, president of the steelworkers union; Ruben Mettler, board chairman of TRW, Inc.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Jerry Wurf, president of the state, county and municipal employees union...
...four sons had not been at the house at the same time for 46 years, and it was a time for remembrance. Franklin, 64, John, 63, Elliott, 68, and James, 71, were together again at Campobello, the historic summer home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt off the New Brunswick coast. Sister Anna died 3½ years ago, but the others had reconvened from distant places to tape an oral history of family life at what is now the Roosevelt Campobello Park. James, a business consultant, recalled that "when we were small and lived here, we didn't have...
Though the armed services are now about 7% female, a 2% Government quota on women kept the military virtually all male for years. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "We have now been given the double whammy. Women have been told they're not wanted in the armed forces and then that for the rest of their lives, they can be passed over in favor of men who are less qualified for government service...
PTST, which distributes 200,000 monthly study guides to such serious TV productions as Eleanor and Franklin, Masterpiece Theater and Between the Wars, set out two years ago to transmute even the most mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly...