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...many men are hostile???though scarcely to the point of murder?some women are simply puzzled. "I don't know what those women are thinking of," says Posey Carpenter, a Los Angeles real estate broker. "I love the idea of looking delectable and having men whistle at me." Other women, offended by this week's national protest, are setting up counter-demonstration organizations. Mrs. Helen Andelin of Santa Barbara?a mother of eight?urges that Sept. 30 be made a National Celebration of Womanhood Day: each wife should wear her most frilly, feminine dress and should "sing before breakfast," serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who's Come a Long Way, Baby? | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...world. The total and instant access to bad as well as good news of U.S. space shots underscored the openness of American society. Hundreds of millions followed the suspsnse story on television, radio and in the press. Even sophisticates who have become ostentatiously blasé about space?if not downright hostile???succumbed. ."I watched the idiot box," wrote Columnist Max Lerner, "as if, by sheer will, I could mesmerize the TV reporter into telling us that all was well in the best of all possible spaceships, on the best of all possible moon probes. I couldn't and he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Apollo's Return: Triumph Over Failure | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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