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Seith has depicted Percy as a do-nothing Senator who spends most of his time on the Georgetown cocktail circuit and tries to hide an "abysmal" voting record. Charged Seith: "He speaks out of both sides of his mouth." By criticizing the sale of jets to Saudi Arabia, Seith hopes to gain support from Jews. He has also been running an unfair advertisement on Chicago's black radio stations implying that Percy approved the racial jokes that cost former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz his job in 1976. The ads do not mention that Percy himself had called for Butz...
Many women are heartened, however, by the gains at the local level. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to win a governorship in her own right, says these victories will percolate women into office in a few years. Adds Georgetown University Politics Professor Jeane Kirkpatrick: "Women just are not able to start at the top, where the prejudices haven't disappeared." But the number of women winning local elections is not inspiring: women now hold 9% of the seats in state legislatures, 2% of the state judgeships, 3% of the county commission offices, 8% of the mayoral and local...
Newton Baird Georgetown, Calif...
...drifted onto everything from his wife's photography to his Coast Guard days in Shanghai. He was totally relaxed, and I understood better why Fed staffers are talking about a breath of fresh air." Like Miller, Taber picked up his economics on the fly. In college (Georgetown, '64) he majored in international relations, but delved more deeply into economics during graduate work at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Between tours as a TIME correspondent in West Germany and France, he served two years as a press aide for the Common Market. Out of his experiences came...
Intimidating to aspiring doctors is the cost of medical education. Says Charles Fentress, of the Association of American Medical Colleges (A.A.M.C.): "Government loans and scholarships are drying up, and the soaring cost of medical school has to be a deterrent." Tuition at Georgetown University School of Medicine has risen to a staggering $12,500 a year, the highest in the nation. At other schools, says the A.A.M.C., tuition and fees run from $2,200 to $9,150 a year. Add to that the cost of room, board and books, and the burden becomes even more formidable...