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Another woman related an incident at a cocktail party when a professor said: "Well, I understand that women's lib is flourishing at Harvard. I always see all these dickey types walking into so and so's office...
...Quentin Burdick, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Utah's Frank Moss, New Mexico's Joseph Montoya and Nevada's Howard Cannon. Conservatives were recruited to run well-financed campaigns against the ostensibly vulnerable quintet. Campaigners from Washington hustled through. Agnew anointed Moss "the Western regional chairman of the Radic-Lib Eastern Establishment." Moss was re-elected easily, and the four other Democrats also won. Three of the Republicans put up against the incumbent Senators were House members; Democrats captured those three seats...
...offensive to some women's lib-eration groups that want to out-male the males that they can contribute something from their own group," Riesman said...
...vesque and his colleagues are moderates committed to electoral democracy. At the same time that his ideas were gaining prominence a different breed of separatist was developing: disaffected radicals committed to violent action. In 1962, these activists created the Front de Libération du Québec. They systematically began planting bombs in mailboxes, robbing banks, setting fire to government buildings. Kidnaping is their latest weapon. "There is no difference between the F.L.Q. and the liberation movement of Palestine, of Viet Nam, of Black Power," says F.L.Q. Leader Charles Gagnon...
Later, Lise meets an ancient Nova Scotian lady who is perhaps the ultimate exponent of Women's Lib. "The male sex is getting out of hand," she says. "Perfume, jewellery, hair down to their shoulders, and I'm not talking about the ones who were born like that. If God had intended them to be as good as us he wouldn't have made them different from us to the naked eye. If we don't look lively, they will be taking over the homes and the children...