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...interview. They accused her of being a spy for women's lib. They said she just wanted to juice up her master's thesis. But this woman was on welfare. She needed a job." Others are having better luck. In Seattle, an organization called Mechanica, which helps women find blue-collar jobs, has placed women as carpenters, machinists, diesel mechanics, laborers and truck drivers. One 24-year-old has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Antioch College but now works in Seattle as an auto mechanic, for $5.45 per hour, which, she says, "is better than being an unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN OF THE YEAR: Great Changes, New Chances, Tough Choices | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Give Prince Borbon a blank check, Unleash Scrooge and Chaing Kai Shek. Women's Lib is no dilemma--Forget Krupskaya and Red Emma...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The New Gotha Programme | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

...infiltrated by Communists. Said Schwarz: [The bureau] "had informants running all over the country checking on what housewives were talking about in their meetings to discuss their role in life." In one case, he said, the agency arranged for white mice to be released at a women's lib protest demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: The Crusade to Topple King | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...hero, Justice Daniel Snow (Melvyn Douglas) is inspired by William O. Douglas. The heroine, Ruth Loomis, played by Jean Arthur, is quite simply hatched from the current foofaraw over women's lib. She is the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late husband, whose views she apparently shares, was a conservative of the Neanderthal stripe. Obviously, she irks Justice Snow. One of the internal contradictions of the play is that Snow, despite his liberal views, is some thing of a chauvinistic fossil when it comes to accepting women on the high bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Not Legal Tender | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...Flipped Lib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 20, 1975 | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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