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...plate picnic dinner to benefit the newly created Barbara Jordan Student Fund. The evening's proceeds are expected to be $500,000, all earmarked for student scholarships and summer internships, which Teacher Jordan applauds. She was applauded too when Author James Michener presented her with the 1984 Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award. Jokes Jordan of her honors roll: "I wonder if people know something that I don't know. I don't plan to check out any time soon...
...lunch honoring Nancy Reagan, the pièce de résistance of the convention's distaff side, Barbara Bush paid tribute to the First Lady's love of beauty: "The White House is sparkling these days, and the meals are superb." Reagan, in response, quoted Eleanor Roosevelt: "I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be effective as a woman. But I never thought that trousers would do the trick." The audience of about 1,800 women, virtually none of them in pants, applauded, as they had applauded reminders that the Republican...
...Among those on the advisory board for the study: Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb; Herbert Stein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon; Economist Robert Solow of M.I.T.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration...
Such contact is fundamental to the program and "really is the essence of medicine," said the program's curriculum coordinator, Eleanor McLoughlin...
...Ferraro is the phoenix who was snatched from the ashes of the 1982 defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment. Leaders of women's groups and women elected officials began meeting that summer to plan strategies to beat Ronald Reagan. Says Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women: "Once we had proved the existence of the gender gap, we had to figure...