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...angry rhetoric has cooled, the marches are less frequent, and so are the ritual roastings of that familiar foe, the male chauvinist pig. A more mature feminism has come to focus on the drive for equality on the job, in the home and in the nation's political life. Three years ago, in a special issue devoted to an examination of "The New Woman" (March 20, 1972), TIME set out to report, among other things, where she stood in politics, business, the professions and other fields. Since then, events have sharpened the American woman's perception of herself...
...business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume. There followed destructive "back office" paper jams, missing stock certificates and theft. In recent weeks, firms have easily shouldered daily trading volume that would have smothered many of them a few years ago. Even so ardent a foe of negotiated commissions as James J. Needham, chief of the New York Stock Exchange, concedes that brokers are ready for Mayday. Says he: "They're about as trim as they could...
...Presidents quite comprehended. The tragedy was only heightened by the fact that the U.S. entered the war not for any base reasons, but out of an understandable desire-although many saw the conflict as merely a civil war-to thwart Communist aggression. Even Senator J. William Fulbright, long a foe of the American involvement in Viet Nam, concedes that the war was not fought "because of any bad motives or evil purposes, but because some of our leaders didn't understand the situation...
...years ago that a young John Kennedy made his famous inaugural pledge: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Even then, that stirring pledge was unrealistic, as the nation was soon to learn in Indochina. But today such a commitment would be unthinkable, and not only because of the enormous social and economic costs it would entail. Slowly at first, then more rapidly, there has been an erosion...
...filled with extraordinary assurance. Having fought and vanquished two enemies about whose evil nature there was little doubt (the Nazis were perfect devils, and the Japanese of that era were quite satisfactory villains too), the U.S. was not accustomed to moral ambiguities. It was ready to take on another foe with global ambitions: international Communism. The Truman Administration launched a challenge to Communist expansion with a degree of bipartisan support that the nation had never before known in peacetime - certainly not in the turbulent periods after World War I, when Senate leaders bitterly fought President Wood-row Wilson over...