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Word: eras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organizations are often locked into contracts with convention centers. The 54,000-member American Home Economics Association, for example, willingly canceled its plans for a 1980 convention in Las Vegas-but will still meet in New Orleans in 1978 and St. Louis in 1979. Both cities are in non-ERA states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: ERA Now? | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Another catch: cities threatened by the boycott say they would gladly pass the ERA-if only it were up to them. But by and large, they claim, it is more conservative, rural voters who have held up passage of the amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: ERA Now? | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Nonetheless, on the theory that all is fair in political warfare and that every little bit will help, the ERA proponents are pressing ahead with the boycott. They are now considering similar boycotts of individual tours and vacations in nonrati-fying states. Says optimistic NOW President Eleanor Smeal: "Resolutions are spreading through organizations like wildfire. It wouldn't be happening without tremendous support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: ERA Now? | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...foremost lumbering centers and its dock area hums day and night with ships loading wood chips for Japan. Otherwise, it is a collection of modest houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?at 8 a.m., whiteness blankets the town?Marshfield High commands a sweeping view of Coos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Joseph Zerilli, 79, godfather of the Detroit Mafia; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. A Sicilian immigrant who started as a construction worker, Zerilli rose to underworld prominence during the Prohibition era and reportedly built a narcotics, prostitution and loan-sharking empire that annually netted $150 million during the '60s. Although he repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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