Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Makeup. Last week, in a surprise move, Transportation Secretary John Volpe proposed making Highway Trust Fund money available for mass transit. The fund now provides about $5 billion a year for federal roads. Under Volpe's plan, the Government would allow $1 billion of this to be spent on mass transit in 1974, $1.85 billion in fiscal 1975 and $2.25 billion in subsequent years. Chances of winning congressional approval this year appear dim, but it is important that the Nixon Administration is striving to spread the money around, and it seems inevitable that just that will be done some...
...remark illustrates the style of Mrs. Betty Southard Murphy, 41, mother of two, candidate for general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a first-rate labor lawyer. She is quiet in manner and conservative in appearance (little makeup or jewelry), but her energy and competence have brought her a nationwide reputation and a $40,000 income in a highly competitive field...
...People who don't go to art galleries feel comfortable about coming to a house, and a lot of them went away very moved," says Chicago. They were particularly struck by a tableau in which a real woman sat in a heavily perfumed bedroom, methodically applying and removing makeup, over and over again. Said one of the contributing artists: "Old ladies just stood here and wept while they watched...
...release figures on their female employees, and some craft unions do not keep track of membership by sex. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators will say only that its women members tend to be concentrated in such job areas as prop makers, costumers, makeup and hair stylists, publicists and lab technicians. Even in these jobs they are outnumbered by men. The Writers Guild of America, Inc., which includes movie scriptwriters and writers of TV news and entertainment shows, has an estimated membership of 4,500. Of that number, a spokesman guesses that...
...Ironically, the reforms may lead to a less competitive convention. "To the degree that you open up the delegate process, you close up the convention," concedes one of Muskie's strategists, not unhappily. As a result, the only shouting at the convention may arise in fights over the makeup of the delegations; partly because of the new rules, the nominee may have been decided upon long before July...