Word: helene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...membership will expand to 60 over the next five years. Does that mean ten women members by 1980? Not necessarily. Any candidate for admission may still be blackballed by any two active members, and four men voted against the change. The first woman likely to be nominated is Helen Thomas, U.P.I.'s White House correspondent. "I'd like to join if I'm invited," she said last week, "but I won't believe it until it happens...
...Nixon stance. "If I had to do it over, I would do the same thing," he declared! Maraziti succumbed to the combination of Watergate, newspaper reports that he kept a woman friend on his office payroll although she did no work, and the competence of a strong challenger: Helen Meyner, wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner...
...growth in the number of women candidates is the quality of their credentials. Of the six new women members of the U.S. House, for example, only one, Marilyn Lloyd, 44, of Tennessee, is a widow who was chosen to replace her husband on the ticket. The other five: Democrat Helen Stevenson Meyner, 46, wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, who has been politically active since her husband left office in 1962; Republican Millicent Fenwick, 64, who gave up her post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress; Democrat Gladys Spellman...
...lover of six years-Charlton Heston, as he tries to effect a mid-air rescue; Medical Problem Linda Blair, who is supposed to have a kidney in need of a transplant but seems to suffer more acutely from an Ipana smile and a crinkly nose; and Singing Nun Helen Reddy, who croons a tune that goes "I'm a best friend to myself." To know who finally saves the day you have only to check who gets top billing in the cast list...
...mischievous chieftain gave Prince Charles a bowl of kava, a very potent local brew. Later, at a reception held in Suva, Fiji's capital, a less formally attired Charles witnessed at close range still more of the island's fundamental splendors, dancing in the balmy night with Helen Frankhen, a student at the University of the South Pacific, who had taken advantage of a South Seas tradition to invite the Prince to dance...