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...support from President Carter, who called ERA "a bedrock" of opportunity for women and minorities. It was also reported that during an hour-long phone call, Betty Ford had persuaded a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Harold Sawyer of Michigan, not to block the bill. Led by Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, a group of ERA supporters later met with Sawyer to congratulate him on his decision...
...causing, well, some local unease. "We don't know who is responsible for this," said Olde Towne Tennis Shop Manager Marilyn Anderson. "We like the es. It's part of the town's heritage." The city's official guidebooks demur. Says Alexandria Travel Guide Helen Judy: "The official spelling is Old Town...
Filmed entire in the slums of New York City and Newark, the project took some nine months and posed hazards for Producer-Director Helen Whitney, whose voice can be frequently heard questioning the show's young subjects. Her purse was stolen during one interview, and she was slammed against the hood of a car during a street altercation. The menace is often palpable. When Whitney asks a group of young men where they draw the line at violence, one replies heatedly: "Ain't no limit. If I gotta kill you to get what I want...
...some old folks with scant savings, inflation means hardship. Helen Ferrone, 68, a retired apartment-house manager, exhausted most of her savings during her late husband's long siege with cancer. Now, struggling to live on Social Security, she is trying to reduce the $60 a month that she must spend on medicines for a variety of ailments. Says she: "When I'm having a good day I try to cut down on the painkillers for my arthritis, though the doctor says I shouldn't, because the medicine should stay in my bloodstream all the time...
...long last, it was time for a housewarming at Bunny and Paul's new place. For the gala affair last week at the magnificent East Building of Washington's National Gallery, the Mellons played host to over 200 guests, including Jacqueline Onassis and Artists Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler. Architect I.M. Pei, creator of it all, looked on beaming. "The best thing is to see how it looks with people in it," he said, adding, "I didn't want it to be a Lincoln Memorial." Not to worry. Before the week was out, the President himself...