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...Along with its surprisingly accurate long-range weather predictions and other distinctive features, the 156-year-old Farmers' Almanac has always carried a batch of snappy sayings that put down women. ("She's a human dynamo-charging everything." "Many a gal has made it to the top because her dress didn't.") This year, however, the ladies get a slightly better shake. Acting on a letter from a Maryland woman who complained about male chauvinism. Editor Ray Geiger has included in the 1973 edition a two-page article stressing women's intellectual equality and right...
...rebuttal of this self-analysis, "and I'm strong minded." "She's human as hell," a student tries to explain in the face of her intimidating vitae and potoriously merciless academic standards, but you couldn't mistake her for a soft-heeled humanist; she's really a tough gal...
...role has not changed in 35 years-or 3,500 years. These are the 35 to 40 million people-mostly women, and especially housewives-who watch the soap operas each week. To them, woman's lot is as deliciously full of predicament, villainy and suffering as when Our Gal Sunday and Helen Trent endured a crisis a day on the radio a generation...
...state legislature last August into repealing an income tax that had been passed just six weeks before; that was a hollow victory for the rebellious citizens because the lawmakers were quickly forced to impose some of the nation's highest taxes on sales (61%), on gasoline (100 per gal.) and on cigarettes (210 per pack). In Kansas City, voters last December defeated a property tax increase that civic leaders of both parties had campaigned hard for on the. grounds that it was urgently needed to improve the city's schools. Across the country, citizens last year voted down...
...come by. Pipelines for natural gas, used to heat homes in Barrow, must run above ground, because the earth is permanently frozen from a few inches below the surface to a depth of 1,300 ft. Gas lines snake through the settlement resting on half-sections of 55-gal. oil drums; at intersections, the pipe is framed in wood and runs overhead on gateways that look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow...