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...Shirley Cothran Barrett, 29. Barrett, in fact, appears fully wired in an ad the A.A.O. has been running in magazines to foster a positive image of grownup braces.) Says Spiro Chaconas, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dental School: "If Eleanor Roosevelt were alive today and had braces put on her teeth at, say, age 60, she could have near perfect dentition within a couple of years...
...Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, and other leaders vowed to concentrate women's new consciousness and resources (NOW has reported recent monthly political contributions of $1 million) on building legislative strength to win eventual passage of a resubmitted ERA. My. magazine Co-Founder Gloria Steinem has already drafted marching orders for the '80s (reproductive freedom, democratization of families, more respect for work done in the home and comparable pay for the work done outside...
...amendment's backers marked the day less festively. At rededication rallies around the country, they pledged to continue the fight. In Washington's Lafayette Square, Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, told a crowd of 2,000: "We are ending this campaign stronger than we began. We are a majority. We are determined to play majority politics .. . We are not going to be reduced again to the ladies' auxiliary." A new ratification effort will begin July 14, when at least 157 Representatives and 46 Senators will reintroduce the amendment to Congress...
...that women are already protected by the 14th Amendment, which offers equal protection to "all persons." They quickly co-opted the fight and mired it down in dire warnings of homosexual marriages and unisex toilets. ERA supporters dismissed the scare talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented evidence to prove, for example, that the privacy act would preclude unisex toilets." When the battle moved to more substantial issues, it was again on opponents' terms. Foes claimed that the ERA would cede states' rights to the Federal Government, cause the death...
...Eleanor Belmont, a former actress and wife of Millionaire August, hired Houdini to be handcuffed, bound with ropes and chains and dropped overboard from the family yacht, merely to divert some friends. Toward the end of her career, she was heard correcting the upright novelist John P. Marquand for his lack of taste and reticence...