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White is "an outstanding young woman," Chief Robert Tonis said yesterday. "She's confident, pleasant, attractive, and she'll lend a nice attitude to the force. We're proud to have...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: Harvard Hires Policewoman; Will Join Force Next Month | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...continue to stop in cafes, to keep my curbside office that allows me to walk down the street and do business." In becoming the highest-ranking woman in U.S. politics, she has been inescapably catapulted nationally into the center ring, and will continue to enjoy that most pleasant of political perks: gainsaying further aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Grasso: Piedmont Spoken Here | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...have seen a Negro woman sold upon the block at auction. I was walking. The woman on the block overtopped the crowd. I felt faint, seasick...The woman was a bright mulatto, with a pleasant face. She was magnificently gotten up in silks and satins. She seemed delighted with it all; sometimes ogling the bidders, sometimes looking quite coy and modest; but her mouth never relaxed from its expanded grin of excitement. I dare say the poor thing knew who would buy her. My very soul sickened. It was too dreadful. I tried to reason. 'You know how women sell...

Author: By Laurel Siebert, | Title: To Love And To Work | 11/15/1974 | See Source »

...from Miss Fitler for her engagement ring. Despite the protests of her financial advisers, Wilson plans to make his fiancee a December bride, then leave for a three-month honeymoon cruise. "I think the age difference is unimportant," said Miss Fitler last week, adding, "it'll be pleasant and interesting to have a man around the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1974 | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...result, the balance of the second act is upset. Anna, commandingly portrayed by Eden Lee Murray, dominates the action through most of the last half of the play, with too much ease. Murray is particularly effective in her adroit modulation between pregnant verbal aggression and ostensibly pleasant urbanity. But the thoroughness with which she overcomes Deeley's attacks leaves us unprepared for Kate's final rejection of Anna...

Author: By Stephen Tifft, | Title: A Membrane of Civility | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

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