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...worlds hitherto closed to women are opening. Increasingly, women are seen attending business conventions, sometimes with their husbands?when the spouse is invited. More and more women are becoming junior executives and sales representatives, positions that often lead to the top; roughly 12% of Xerox's traveling sales
...concern was that the 2,080-lb. bell would be damaged beyond the celebrated crack that opened in 1835 while the bell was tolling for the funeral procession of Chief Justice John Marshall. Eastman Kodak made several radiographs (or giant X rays) of the bell that revealed some hitherto unknown interior cracks, but none serious enough to cause future damage. And so the bell, commissioned in 1751, will be seen-if not heard-by millions of Americans as the nation begins its third century...
...campaign for discipline may be having some impact on the country. In Bombay, for instance, streets are no longer littered with debris, telephone repairs are made promptly, and state ministers are arriving at their offices at the hitherto unheard-of hour of 9:30 in the morning. Police claim crime is down 10%, largely because they no longer have to spend so much of their energies controlling political demonstrations. One veteran foreign observer of Indian affairs believes Mrs. Gandhi "administered to the country a massive punch in the jaw, which it probably needed." He adds that if the government...
This stress on women doing for other women--women setting up their own restaurants, businesses, record companies and rape clinics, women creating their own distinctive art based on their unique experience as women--is what makes the Sourcebook valuable as a stimulus to the aspiring, or perhaps hitherto slumbering, feminist. There's a tremendous sense of power, of almost endless possibilities conveyed by this glimpse at what others have done and are trying...
...Wharton papers, which were deposited at Yale after her death in 1937, were opened only in 1968. Biographer Lewis, a Yale professor, has had a treasure chest of hitherto secret material, and he has made good use of it. Edith Wharton's own story, too long delayed, is as compelling as anything she ever wrote...