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Still, ABC's financial situation was unstable (it was the target in the 1960s of attempted hostile takeovers by Norton Simon and Howard Hughes and an aborted merger with ITT), and its hold on last place in the ratings seemed depressingly unshakable. Some of the network's hit shows of the late 1960s and early '70s were often faddish entries, quick to catch on and quick to fade away: Batman, The Mod Squad, Kung Fu. ABC's ratings woes became the subject of mordant jokes. Asked how to end the Viet Nam War, industry wags would reply, "Turn it into...
With only Gerry Cooney for a hyphenated rival, Holmes is undefined in an Ali- Frazier, Leonard-Duran sense, though the Ken Norton fight was memorable to everyone who saw it. That started Holmes' term of office almost seven years ago, when Easton, Pa., threw the only parade. "I was so happy, I thought I was going to cry," he says. "But I kept things in, and I just waved. It wouldn't be right for the world heavyweight champion to be crying." Having seen Ali wander from Louisville to Chicago to Los Angeles, Holmes knew enough never to leave Easton...
According to Forster, Caroline Norton did not have the idea that the interion social status of women should be radically altered just that women should be accorded the same protection as other socially vulnerable groups But Norton was in fact asking For an in stitutional reform a marriage into an arrangement mutually benetial to both women and men Even after separating from her husbad Norton was careful not ot consort with men lest her reputation, an theirs be harmend...
...feminist struggle seems one which makes gains little by little: Forster says that it requires a steady stream of women who are willing to serve as the "example on which a particular law shall be reformed." To play this role, for Norton as for other women, entails, a tremendous personal sacrifice...
Blackwell's brand of feminists, however, demanded a greater sacrifice than most women are willing to make, and a greater sacrifice than most men have to make. Blackwell wanted women doctors to embark on a crusade for greater humaneness in the profession, particularly in obstetrics and gynecology. Norton herself wrote, "Women, in fact, have not been attracted to those areas which Elizabeth Blackwell thought cried out for them..." The 20th century has shown as that although it is now legally possible for women to become doctors, other obstacles still stand in the way. Medical training requires a time commitment that...