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...funeral of Winston Churchill to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Still, there are lapses that may keep the returnee from gaining total touch with contemporary reality. For instance, the hippie movement is encapsulated in 200 words. The advent of ecology gets little more space, while Women's Lib is mentioned only in passing. Given these oversights, a first reading of the publication will undoubtedly provide the P.O.W.s with quite a homecoming shock...
Cord sailing, a rarity in competition, will highlight the minor invitational tournament to be held on Sunday at MIT. Two boats are entered, each with a two-student crew. Women's lib wins out here, as the man and woman will alternate as captain from race to race...
Word may not have filtered down to local chapters of Women's Lib, but a renegade group has been found among the ranks of Australian females. Both sexes of Labroides dimidiatus, an unprepossessing little fish of the wrasse family that lives in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, are rampant male chauvinists. Not only do the males rule the reef, but the females like the idea so much that they turn into males themselves at the first opportunity...
Lexicographers Ms. Casey Miller and Ms. Kate Swift recently amplified the Women's Lib party line: men have traditionally used language to subjugate women. As they see it, William James' bitch-goddess Success and the National Weather Service's Hurricane Agnes are products of the same criminal mind, designed to foster the illusion of woman as Eve, forever volatile and treacherous. The authors therefore suggest the elimination of sexist terms. "Genkind," they think, would provide a great encompassing umbrella under which all humanity could huddle, regardless. Varda One, a radical philologist, asks for the obliteration of such...
...token director, but if I thought I was, I wouldn't be on boards," she insists. Over the years she has joined the boards of A T & T, Kraftco and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance as well as G.M. An austere person who finds Women's Lib a little brash, Cleary has nonetheless appointed women to one executive post out of ten at her bank. She is the only female on First Wisconsin's board, however...