Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home. But even a more moderate formulation-to the effect that women who prefer being at home should not be discouraged or derided-will evoke debate, scorn or silence in many quarters. So Senior Editor Timothy Foote found when he brought up the subject of Marabel Morgan, whose immensely popular books and Total Woman classes preach just such ideas. When the mere mention of her name at a Long Island dinner party brought a hostile response from the women present, Foote as a journalist "found it a good sign. If people are so stirred by something that they are unable...
...fish in their areas. U.S. fishermen are allowed to net as much of each quota as they are equipped to take; foreign vessels are being licensed by the State Department to catch the remainder. In practice, this means that foreigners will be prohibited from taking species that are popular with Americans but will still be able to take limited amounts of fish like hake, which is popular in Eastern Europe, and squid, which is prized in Japan and in Mediterranean countries. The foreign take from American waters will be limited to 2 million metric tons, down from an estimated...
...trifling last October, when lawyers refused to certify some local bond issues because title to land in the localities involved was clouded by the Indian suit. The bonds are selling again, but some hostility persists in what some Down Easters describe as a "whiteneck" backlash. Says Maine's popular Republican Congressman William Cohen, who is anxious to run soon for either Senator or Governor: "It's not politically feasible to be liberal on this issue. The notion that 3,000 people can claim even 5 million acres is excessive...
...oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship of a small layer of the country over the rest of the society," Berlinguer scolded him on Italian television, saying: "That is a summary judgment that I do not share...
...Wellesley's course, for example, is oversubscribed and most of its "graduates" have subsequently braved higher-level math, statistics or economics. At a third innovator, Mills College in California, a pre-calculus program that stresses the necessity of math for many careers has helped make math the most popular subject among the 850 women undergraduates...