Word: patricias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moon Landrieu, 49, mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to '78, and now a real estate executive, to replace Patricia Harris, the newly nominated Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, in her previous post as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...Joseph A. Califano Jr., the sharp-witted, liberal and independent-minded Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. His replacement, subject to Senate confirmation: Patricia Harris, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and first black woman in the Cabinet. Her successor at HUD has not been announced...
...Joseph Califano was dismissed as Secretary of HEW because he was too independent, things may remain much the same under Patricia Roberts Harris, 55, whose colleagues at HUD consider her, with some admiration, every bit as "abrasive" and "pushy" as Califano. A strong-willed woman who fights hard within the bureaucracy for what she wants, Harris does differ from Califano in one important respect: if she loses a battle, she keeps quiet in public and joins in carrying out the Administration decision...
...characters in the pitiful drama that is played out in this book. A person's be havior, and even character, she wrote, "is always in the merciless grip of the age, which squeezes out of him the drop of good or evil that it needs from him." -Patricia Blake...
...visiting churchmen and -women walked away, frustrated and angry at their inability to make any headway with Hyde. "He's intractable," observed Patricia Gavett, national director of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights. "But I think he turned our clergy on politically." The aroused ministers quickly discovered that the politics of abortion is a bruising business. Last week a more stringent version of the Hyde amendment easily passed the House. It would ban federal funds for all abortions except cases in which a woman's life is in danger. As in past years, the Senate is expected...