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...Ella T. Grasso, LL.D., Governor of Connecticut...
Thousands can afford this expensive apartheid; thousands more can bear the costs of living in pleasant apartments in high-rise buildings in New York, Miami or Chicago. But millions of elderly Americans, the majority of them women and widowed, have to make do more modestly. Ella Larson, 73, a retired nurse in Santa Monica, Calif., finds apartment living increasingly expensive. She gets $107.80 a month from Social Security, which goes for food. An additional $147 from old-age assistance pays her rent and utilities, which leaves her almost nothing for clothes and entertainment. Mrs. Larson worries constantly that her rent...
...York Representative Bella Abzug has proclaimed, 1974 was the "Year of the Woman." Connecticut's Ella Grasso, 55, became the first woman to be elected Governor without following in her husband's footsteps. New York chose its first female Lieutenant Governor, Mary Anne Krupsak, 43. No woman made it to the Senate. ("A stag Senate," quips Abzug, "is a stag nation.") In the House of Representatives, 18 women won seats, up from 14 in 1972. In the states, more women tried for legislative office than ever before; about 1,200 women candidates were listed on ballots, one-third...
...final story, "Passionella, concerns Ella, played by Barbara Fazio, a chimney sweep who aspires to movie stardom. Her wish is granted by that irrepressible snake, and she finds her Prince Charming, a curious sequined admixture of Presley, James Dean and Jagger played by Michael Blake. "Passionella" is the most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays...
Kingman Brewster, president of Yale; Gov. Ella Grasso of Connection; and Associate Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and Byron White were among the alumni who attended the gathering...