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STILL QUAKING from the horror that was the 1968 Miss America Pageant Protest, where women cast bras, girdles, false eyelashes and other feminine by-products to the winds, the FBI graphically confirmed what home-loving husbands and benevolent bosses already knew: an insidious radical force was on the loose--out to get the women of America. By 1969, thousands of women had left their womanly duties to rally behind the National Organization for Women (NOW) which advocated such national reforms as an equal rights constitutional amendment, equal and un-segregrated educational and job opportunities for women, women's right...
Nostalgia shows do not flourish on gilded memories alone. They remind us of things that we miss on the modern stage. We miss chorines who look smashingly lovely. The chorus line in Sugar Babies could qualify for the Miss America Pageant. We miss the assured versatility of a show-biz veteran. Mickey Rooney has grease paint in his blood and the house in his pocket...
American non-Catholics last week seemed almost as happy as Catholics to have the Pope in their midst. No old sectarian angers darkened the pageant. Whatever doctrinal reservations may remain about the Pope of Rome lay quiet, at least for the moment...
...history texts turn a pageant into patchwork...
...pageant and the ensuing mix-up seemed a fitting preview of the 22nd Olympiad, displaying, as one visiting U S sportswnter unkindly put it, "the Russian proclivity for excelling at pomp and fouling up circumstance." Spartakiad's first week did produce scores of minor organizational glitches that need to be ironed before next year. But to their credit the Soviets seemed obsessively determined to correct their mistakes and make the most impressive Olympiad yet. Spartakiad features 10,000 Soviet athletes, sifted from nearly 100 million entrants over two years of eliminations and-for the first time-2,500 foreign...