Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sally Reed of Boise, Idaho, had been denied permission to serve as administrator of her deceased son's estate (worth less than $1,000) because a state law provided that "males must be preferred to females" when the two have an otherwise equal claim. As a result, her husband, from whom she was divorced, was appointed administrator. Writing for the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger found the preference for males "arbitrary" and in violation of the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
...decision was immediately hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union as "an occasion in constitutional history," and telegrams of congratulation from other women poured in on Mrs. Reed, who was soon contending with a front lawn full of reporters. "We never dreamed it would go this far," she said of the case's modest origins. "I just cared about the principle of the thing. The courts don't give women the right to be heard. I hope more women will do what I did. Instead of complaining about the way things...
Battles Ahead. Despite Mrs. Reed's victory, advocates of women's rights still have considerable legal battling to do. for the court's opinion falls far short of announcing a broad general principle. Feminists had actually been hoping to see such a principle embodied in a proposed constitutional amendment banning all discrimination on the basis of sex. The amendment had passed the House earlier this year, but on the very day of the court's action, a Senate subcommittee substantially weakened the amendment by specifying that legal distinctions between the sexes could still be permitted...
...addition will house three kinds of laboratories and an astronomical library, as well as offices, in the basement the engineering lab will refine and execute researchers designs for special experimental gadgetry. The photo division of the laboratories will be "a sophisticated dark room for astronomers," Robert G. Reed, an Observatory officer, said yesterday...
...Some feel that his immense output-by his own estimate, some 7,000 pages of poetry-is occasionally marred by obscurantisn and Marxist propaganda. But Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during the Spanish Civil War, praised Neruda as "a real man who knows that the reed and the swallow are more immortal than the hard cheek of a statue...