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Senior year in high school, as a top-of-the-class, achievement-oriented woman, I knew that eventually I would have to fight my way into a man's world. But women's lib was the "in" cause that year, and more and more channels seemed to be opening for women. Being female, I thought, might even be an advantage by the time I graduated from Radcliffe. It never occurred to me that the battle would begin at Harvard...
...would not make a deal, he would not trade votes, he would not join a cabal. He switched from a Republican to a Democrat, but he was at home in neither party. While his col leagues rebuked him for being a gadfly, he taunted them for being "phony lib-g erals." "A true liberal can't limit himself to a few areas," he declared. "He I must be on guard everywhere, ready to I pounce on evil wherever it raises its ugly head...
...Today is expected to be more than just a good newsman, of course. Says Co-Host Walters: "The person must be able to do interviews and ad-lib those awful 30 seconds at the end of the show." He must also supply what Schulberg calls "chemical balance" to the stand-up comic pace of Today Reviewer Gene Shalit and the alternately sweet-and-strident Walters. And he must bring himself to do commercials...
...Hooray for Martin Weisbrod and senior lib...
Equal pay for equal work is a familiar slogan of the women's lib movement. It has also been the law of the land for large companies for a decade, but a law that was little noted nor long remembered. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided its first sex-discrimination wage case, and five of the "Nine Old Men" handed down a ruling that should be a sharp spur for industries to up women's wages...