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...SUPREME COURT'S recent ruling that company health plans need not provide benefits for disabilities related to pregnancy marks a serious step backward for women's rights in this country. By deciding (by a six-man majority) that General Electric need not give pregnant employees sick pay, the court lent legitimacy to the idea that motherhood and employment are mutually exclusive...
...show does not so much advance toward the 20th century as peter out in it-a curious evolution, owing perhaps to the difficulty of getting the right pictures lent-and the last section, spanning about 1900 to 1950, makes the contribution of women to modern art seem less than it actually was. Painters of large and unquestionable talent, like Lee Krasner, are not seen at their best. One could hardly guess from her work on display here that Germany's Hanna Höch-now 87 and the last surviving artist-member of the Berlin Dada group...
Those who weren't tall enough to bend across could rely on a message board, which told the score as well as listing the books that were lent...
Never especially known for what covered her body, Brigitte Bardot, 42, is now into fashion. BB has lent her approval-and signature in shocking pink and black-to a spring collection of dresses, blouses, shirts and short shorts created by her friend, Designer Arlette Nastat. The threads, which go on sale next month in stores in Manhattan and Dallas, are clingy, transparent and décolleté. The market for the collection, however, may be limited. The former sex kitten sees potential customers as "women who have my allure, my look...
While still Deputy Secretary, Vance was dispatched to dampen the 1964 anti-American crisis in the Canal Zone, thus beginning his remarkable set of peacemaking missions for Johnson. In 1965 Vance's skills as a negotiator helped settle a civil war in Santo Domingo, and in 1967 he lent a calming hand to the Army's occupation of Detroit, where violent race riots had killed 43 people...