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...mayor of Phoenix, is optimistic. "Obviously," she says, "the males of the country have overcome their fear of women in politics. Every success creates an aura of confidence for the next woman who tries it." (Women are also mayors of San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kans., Cincinnati and Lincoln, Neb.) Not long ago, a Gallup poll found that 73% of the American people would support a qualified woman running for President...
Died. Henry Townley Heald, 71, former president of the Ford Foundation, world's largest, most influential, philanthropic trust; in Winter Park, Fla. The lanky native of Lincoln, Neb., became the first president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he served from 1940 to 1952. For the next four years he was chancellor of New York University and helped to unify its many schools and divisions before joining Ford in 1956. Under Heald, grants to education were nearly 50% of the $1.75 billion the Ford Foundation dispensed during the nine years of his presidency. Heald believed that foundations should...
Carol A. Broman Lincoln, Neb...
Born in Lincoln, Neb., Cheney took bachelor's and master's degrees in political science at the University of Wyoming, then went to the University of Wisconsin for additional graduate work. Named a congressional fellow by the American Political Science Association, he moved to Washington in 1968 to work on the campaign of Wisconsin Congressman William Steiger...
...blurring of sex roles, perhaps the most obvious aspect of the male gay culture is its promiscuity. Some men have quick, anonymous and furtive sex in the men's rooms of public parks, subway stations or college buildings. Others seek nightly for partners in established pickup areas. In Lincoln, Neb., they cruise near the Governor's mansion; in Arlington, Va., near the Iwo Jima memorial. In the Fens and "the Block," in Boston's Back Bay, homosexuals run the risk of getting badly beaten and even killed by roaming gangs who are out to get them. Most...