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...harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy era to Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, the Wobblies, and the Haymarket trial of 1887. There is also the ambiguous case of the Utah Mormons, who were persecuted in the late 19th century for the "crime" of practicing polygamy, then a canon of their faith. In a certain sense, those Latter-day Saints arrested for refusing to divorce...
...Department of State pleaded guilty last week. One of its Foreign Service officers, blonde, blue-eyed Alison ("Tally") Palmer, 39, charged that she had been discriminated against because of her sex-and there was no defense...
...Department's embarrassed Deputy Under Secretary for Administration, William B. Macomber Jr., admitted that Miss Palmer's career had been adversely affected by the fact that she was denied assignments to three embassies in Africa in 1965 simply because she was a woman. Accordingly, said Macomber, she would be promoted to the rank of Foreign Service Officer 3, would receive a salary increase from $19,537 to $22,135, and would be awarded a one-year assignment to a prestigious course at the National War College...
Pint-sized (5 ft. ¼ in.) Tally Palmer has long been known as a fighter. As consular officer in Leopoldville during the turbulent months that followed Congolese independence in 1960, she showed up time and again to save U.S. officials and newsmen from Congolese mobs. One of the men she rescued was Frank Carlucci, then a Foreign Service officer, now the newly appointed associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. Carlucci's car had killed a Congolese and skidded into a ditch, and both Carlucci and a U.S. military aide might well have been lynched if Tally...
Since joining the tour, Lee has won nine P.G.A. tournaments and currently ranks No. 10 among golf's alltime money winners. (Palmer leads, with $1,364,898.) Besieged by sponsors waiting to have their wallets tapped, he also has a host of lucrative endorsement deals with, among others, Blue Bell, Inc. (sportswear), Abbott Laboratories (golf equipment), Stylist Shoe Co., Downtowner Motor Inns, Chrysler's Dodge Division, and, of course, the Dr Pepper Co. In addition, Lee Trevino Enterprises Inc. is readying a TV series called Golf Celebrity and a $1.5 million luxury apartment complex in El Paso called Casa Trevino...