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...there could ever have existed this particular streak in women," she says with a laugh. "It is most chivalrous of them. But what annoys me just a little is that reviewers even now, after all the years I have fought and pleaded and written about the cause of women, persist in picturing me as an enemy of my own sex. Every time a woman opens her mouth about another woman she is supposed to be giving her final view about her sex. This is, of course, unconscious male chauvinism...
...only a few gallons per customer and that autos, buses, police cars and fire trucks across the nation would be stranded for lack of fuel. Suddenly, some day seems ominously close. Many parts of the country are, in fact, short of gasoline and diesel fuel. The scarcities threaten to persist, at least in some localities, throughout the peak summer driving season...
...glaringly contradictory perceptions by administrators and faculty of Federal affirmative action requirements may help to explain why these inequities persist...
...become home for those wanting a good, interdisciplinary education, but without the academic orientation desired by the professors running the programs. This "honors-only" approach leads to some pretty bizarre arrangements, and until the number of interdisciplinary, area studies and joint degree programs is expanded, these situations will persist...
...score in the U.S. desperately in need of repair. There are still Americans starving, as well as Asians, and still many citizens in need of homes and education and the prospects of hope. These unsatisfied needs cannot be blamed on Viet Nam. If the cries of the needy persist in the '70s there will be a social tragedy: the rav ages of peace...