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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...
...from the AFL-CIO to the Y.W.C.A. to the American Jewish Committee, endorsed the amendment. Polls showed consistently that its passage was favored by more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens. Indeed, the idea of an ERA is hardly new. It was proposed in 1923 by Feminist Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, and that same year was introduced in Congress, where it languished for decades. The modern campaign began in 1967, when a stubborn Paul, then 82, persuaded the National Organization for Women to endorse the amendment. By 1972, partly because of the momentum...
...movement in modern Argentine history was once again stirring. Peronism, a cult of nationalism, populism and social welfare fostered by the late Juan Domingo Perón, has been a force in Argentina since the mid-1940s. Twice, from 1946 to 1955 and briefly in 1973 and 1974, its founder held power. Twice also, according to the movement's critics, Peronism brought Argentina to the brink of ruin. Yet so strong is the creed's appeal, especially among lower and working classes, that most political experts estimate that the Peronists would win between...
Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...