Word: ms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planning many of city's observances, to design what it has called one of its "theme exhibits": Boston Women The show's opening last week is, significantly, one of the first overt productions of the bicentennial. It is also her first major exhibit for the young and talented Ms. Hiestand...
...newly discovered notebooks, the Madrid Codices, which conclusively prove that the Renaissance man invented the flush toilet 500 years ago. Respondents who are bombarding the magazine with telephone inquiries and letters are being advised to take a second look at the article. It is sprinkled with names like Ms. Henrietta Birdbrain and Robert Ripoff-as befits an April Fools' piece. Actually, the biggest giveaway is the author's name: Martin Gardner...
Five dollars plus expenses bought a prank phone call from Martha Mitchell to the victim of your choice. ("Did you know the CIA is investigating you?" she asked one startled Montana resident.) Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem turned taxi-dancer for one $65 song; off to the side, Washington Post Watergate Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold phony spy disguises. In the kissing booth, Veteran Socialite Barbara Howar demonstrated her wares to Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. The occasion: the second annual Counter Gridiron dinner, held to raise money for a journalists' legal-defense fund and the hackles...
Only after Harvard learned that Ms. Sing planned to take legal action with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAS), did a four-page, single spaced memorandum appear detailing alleged poor work performance. While the MCAD's investigation proceeded, a staff meeting was called at the Loeb Library to forbid discussion on the part of the staff and employees with anyone outside the University...
...hearing, Harvard was represented by three lawyers from Ropes and Gray, who argued, among other things, that a woman cannot possibly discriminate against a woman. The logic behind this argument is at best shakey. The MCAD is continuing its investigation into Ms. Sing's dismissal, indicating that the case is by no means concluded...