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...September issue of Ms, the Women's Lib organ suggested that NASA is a male-chauvinist bastion that has barred qualified women from competing for berths as astronauts. Whatever the truth of that charge, the space agency is apparently moving closer to the day when women will be allowed to fly in space. NASA this week is completing tests on a dozen women at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to determine how females respond to the physiological stresses of spaceflight...
...establishing some sort of first this time as the trip will be managed by Maria Kacandes," McCurdy said. "John Noble (the other manager) is folding in gracious fashion to female pressure groups, but you know what's going to be said about Woman's Lib if we lose. If we win, though, Noble is through...
...Riggs-King tennis match on television [Oct. 1] was a forum for both the best and the worst elements in the Women's Lib movement. Billie Jean, a perfect sport and brilliant tennis player, gave ample proof that women's sports can be tremendously exciting...
Commentator Rosie Casals, though, was biased and abrasive. The telecast convinced me that those who will do the most good for the Women's Lib movement will speak softly and carry a big racket...
Despite its obvious doctrinaire intention, Public Purpose has plenty to say about issues right out of any morning's newspaper. The book has a fascinating chapter, for example, on "the concept of the household" that is bound to become an instant classic in Women's Lib anthologies. Consumption, while basically fun, says Galbraith, also involves a lot of work: maintenance of house, appliances and automobiles; food preparation; and "participation in competitive social display " Current economic truths presume that these duties fall to women, who are thus in a "crypto-servant" class. "Menially employed servants were available only...