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These women will get high-level help from the wives and daughters of powerful politicians. The feminist crusade has lately recruited many of them, and they were at Houston in large numbers. Cynthia Baker, Daughter of Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, was a delegate at large; Cecilia Apodaca, wife of the Governor, was a delegate from New Mexico; the West Vir ginia delegation included Sharon Rockefeller, the Governor's wife. At Houston, Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, declared herself "a newly proclaimed feminist?I used to think it was a bad notion...
...human intelligence is dangerous. Lacking vital on-site inspection, you must have the capability to penetrate the enemy's deception plans." Agents also argue that U.S. satellites can now be knocked out by Soviet "hunter-killer" satellites and thus could be rendered useless in a crisis. One former high-level insider warns: "We would be blinded. We would have no adequate staff on the ground to do intelligence or counterintelligence...
Cronkite has no plans to extend his brief but successful career in international mediation. "I don't think a journalist should become involved in high-level diplomacy," he says, "but it is a journalist's duty to pursue these diplomatic pronouncements. I wasn't trying to get this meeting started. My official attitude is I couldn't care less about it, though I can't help believing it will be important and helpful. Maybe we [at CBS] were catalysts. But then, maybe they would have gotten together without...
Working wives have an even greater say in the decision, especially if they hold a middle-or high-level job that cannot easily be matched in another city. Rand Corp. Demographer Peter Morrison notes that 41% of all married women in America are now working, nearly double the figure of a generation ago. "As the number of two-paycheck families increases," he says, "it is reasonable to assume that migration rates will continue to decline...
What keeps the sailors from attaining the high-level consistency of Yale or MIT, both agree, is partly the white-tie-and-tails image of the sport. "People may think it's a very elite, high-powered thing, but it's really a very open thing," Horn contends. Gone are the days when the Ted Turners of the world would hop into their boats, still tuxedo-clad, after an evening of nightclub-hopping; sailing is now a down-to-earth, serious sport. Unfortunately hot everyone realizes that, and the fall crop of freshmen can't compare to the turnout...