Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to New York from the Panama Canal Zone, Nation Associate Editor Edwin Warner stopped in Houston to attend the National Women's Conference. "I had just been exposed to the clash of ideologies over the Panama Canal Treaty," he explains, "and I thought that the controversy in Houston might be even more exhilarating. I also thought that men would be in some disfavor in Houston that weekend, but I decided to go anyway." Warner, who wrote a major portion of our cover story this week on the state of the women's movement, did not run into...
...Houston, Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin teamed up with Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch and Stringer Jackie Schmeal. Nation Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan months ago had decided to attend the conference -on her own-as an observer. Says Dolan, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Columbia, and a single parent with four children: "It was the major women's event of the century. Nothing would have kept me from attending...
...stopped dead when I read, "Those billions add up to more than the country spends on national defense." They'd damned well better. A nation, or any group of people, for that matter, that places defense above education and personal growth in its priorities is pretty sick...
...battle was over?and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...
President Carter, in a telegram to the American Dental Association on Oct. 7, said, "Fluoridation is safe, and...is the most effective public health measure available to improve the nation's dental health and reduce unnecessary dental expenditures...