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...touches on more than 100 refurbished but original costumes from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh when Scarlett O'Hara bailed out Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and marveled at the exotic headpiece that disguised Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. When she got to the cane Mae West leaned on in films like She Done Him Wrong, Mrs. Vreeland briskly struck down one of Hollywood's fondest...
...section. In a team approach we often use on major projects, other departments joined in: articles on climate changes and the process of starving to death were contributed by Science Writer Frederic Golden and Medicine Writer Peter Stoler with back-up from Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill, Brigid O'Hara-Forster and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Supervising the entire report was Senior Editor Marshall Loeb...
...resultant six-week investigation by Rep. James. G. O'Hara's (D.-Mich.) Special House Subcommittee on Education--the first such review by the legislative branch--apparently will issue in legislation to outlaw such programs. The rationale of the committee's majority here, it seems, is that minority hiring "goals" are the same as "quotas," which are the same as "reverse discrimination," which is something the government should not be "bankrolling...
October brought other congressional perils, as well. At the same time the O'Hara subcommittee was meeting, a little-noticed rider to an education bill passed the House, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie S. Holt (R-Md.). If passed by the Senate, the anti-busing measure would prohibit federal agencies from requiring "school systems" to keep track of their minorities--students or teachers. Should colleges be included in its catch-all jurisdiction, as some on the Hill have said is likely, affirmative action and Title IX programs would be undermined...
Harrison said that O'Hara, convinced by the testimony of college administrators and educational lobbyists that HEW's voluntary hiring-goal program is "subterfuge," will try to rewrite the 1965 Higher Education Act when Congress reconvenes so as to outlaw such "reverse discrimination...