Word: minked
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Daly letter which appeared along with similar moans from other Ivy League administrators, had an immediate impact on the House. Congresswoman Patsi Mink (D. Hawaii) rose on the floor Nov 4 to say she had been astounded" by the letter "He would have us believe that sex discrimination is the right of the institution just because it is a matter of educational policy." She said. Another Congresswoman, Martha Griffiths (D-Mich.), acidly suggested that Harvard fire Daly "and put a competent Radcliffe undergraduate in his place...
...among women even more than men." Singling out Gloria Steinem for having referred to marriage as "prostitution," Ms. Friedan protests "the assumption that no woman would ever want to go to bed with a man if she didn't need to sell her body for bread or a mink coat. Does this mean that any woman who admits tenderness or passion for her husband, or any man, has sold out to the enemy?" Ms. Steinem responded with disdain: "Having been falsely accused by the male establishment journalists of liking men too much, it's a relief...
...discrimination by employers, employment agencies and unions that affect interstate commerce. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is supposed to enforce the law, has no power to bring suits on its own. Legislation currently pending would change that. "The lack severely handicaps the EEOC," contends Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Mink. When it cannot get a voluntary change of an apparently discriminatory policy, EEOC must ask the Justice Department to go into court, and it can be turned down. Since 1964, Justice has filed only three sex-discrimination suits-though the Labor Department has prosecuted 330 alleged violations...
...civilization, that he periodically retreats further into the jungle to read philosophy in a native hammock. There are the diamond diggers of Aragarcas, their skin made as hard as aluminum by insect bites, who blow each bonanza on preposterous luxuries sold to them at incredible prices by Levantine traders: mink coats for jungle prostitutes, a Cadillac shipped in pieces and reassembled to run back and forth on 100 yards of pavement...
Moxie and Mink Oil. Only five years ago, Turner gave up selling sewing machines to poor Southern rural blacks and became a distributor for a small cosmetics concern, but he soon wound up broke. He then got a $5,000 bank loan and started his own cosmetics firm, Koscot Interplanetary Inc., in Orlando, Fla. Even before he had a product, Turner had a small staff out recruiting distributors, who were asked to advance up to $5,000 to get in on the ground floor of a great proposition. Amazingly, the recruiters found people willing to pay. The money began...