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...politics, that expression threatens to become archaic. Three major contests on Election Day will be all-female affairs. Mikulski and Chavez are only the second pair of women in U.S. history to win the nominations of both major parties in a Senate campaign.* In Nebraska, State Treasurer Kay Orr, a Republican, is running against former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis, a Democrat, in the country's first all-woman gubernatorial race. In Maryland's Second Congressional District, Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert Kennedy's daughter, will oppose incumbent Helen Delich Bentley...
...ongoing participant in Board of Economists meetings is Editorial Assistant Mary Catherine Orr, who coordinated this and some 40 earlier conferences. Says she: "Board Member Walter Heller and I have been involved with them longer than anyone else. I've become fond of the members, since I've known many of them for so long. Like all smart people, they are easy to work with." We find them highly informative as well...
Festivities move to the Meadowlands Sports Complex on Sunday, as the likes of Muhammad Ali, Bobby Orr, Billie Jean King, Mary Lou Retton and Hank Aaron parade around the stadium. There will be a gymnastics exhibition and skating by Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and Scott Hamilton. A planned tug-of-war between the New York Jets and Giants football teams seems to have been a casualty of David Wolper's unpredictable kitsch detector, which has been on alert since recent criticisms of the weekend's rampant schlockiness...
Most American schoolchildren learn that Nebraska's outstanding political feature is its unique unicameral legislature. Last week voters in a statewide primary gave Nebraska an even more memorable feature: two women, Republican State Treasurer Kay Orr and Democrat Helen Boosalis, won their parties' nominations for Governor, thus setting the stage for the first all-woman gubernatorial race in U.S. history...
Both candidates have stronger credentials than a mere appeal to gender. Boosalis, 66, who won 44% of the vote against six opponents, was mayor of Lincoln for eight years, and as director of the department on aging has developed a strong constituency among Nebraska's large elderly population. Orr, 47, who defeated seven opponents with 39% of the vote, was the only G.O.P. candidate with statewide experience. Said she: "This is an opportunity to tell that what we have in Nebraska are open-minded people." The women will vie for the job now held by Bob Kerrey, 42, former companion...