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...Althena had an advantage over us." Sissy Farenthold. Chair of the Woman's National Political Caucus (NWPC), sucked the convention members into her words like a pagan priestess mesmerizing a pack of willing iconoclasts. "She sprang full grown from the forehead of Zeus. Our movement is not ordained from on high and we hardly sprang full-grown. Our growth will come with painstaking effort...
...shudder of agreement rippled down the caucus from Alabama to Wyoming. "Foreign Policy is vital to out survival and women must intrude on those decisions. That is our failure-that we do not have women senators to address us or women judges whose opinions we can read." Farenthold swooped down in a final damnation. "And we have no presidential candidate...
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, a leader of the National Women's Political Caucus, said in an interview yesterday that party leaders showed visible signs of worry during the Saturday meeting with the caucuses...
...emphasized that the meeting was not a "last-ditch" effort. "It wasn't any back room kind of thing," Farenthold said. "All party groups had a part in the negotiations and liberal labor was very active...
...This was the year of the breakthrough for women," declared Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold, chairman of the National Women's Political Caucus. In addition to the Democratic triumph of Governor-elect Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Democrat Janet Gray Hayes, 47, of San Jose, Calif., became the first woman mayor of a U.S. city of more than 500,000, and Democrat Susie Sharp, 67, of North Carolina, the first woman chief justice of a state supreme court. For the first time, New York chose a woman, Democrat Mary Anne Krupsak, 42, as Lieutenant Governor, and Californians elected Democrat March Fong...