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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking crisp and composed in a red shirtwaist dress, red-white-and-blue scarf and frosted hair, Phyllis Schlafly arrived last week at the Illinois capitol with 500 followers. To symbolize their opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, which was about to be voted on in the house, the women had brought loaves of home-baked bread-apricot, date nut, honey-bran and pumpkin. But as she climbed onto a kitchen stool to address the cheering crowd, Schlafly the demure housewife turned into Schlafly the aggressive polemicist. The passage of ERA, she declared, would mean Government-funded abortions, homosexual schoolteachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anti-ERA Evangelist Wins Again | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Bangles and chains, a head scarf, a few phrases of Romany and presto, Shelley Winters is an ample gypsy queen in King of the Gypsies. Based on Peter Maas' saga about gypsy life in America today, the film describes the stormy succession to the throne of King Zharko (Sterling Hayden). During the shooting of a scene at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Winters decided to see how authentic she looked. Sauntering over to diners in the Palm Court, she offered to tell their fortunes and was swiftly chased out by the management. Later came revenge. Winters watered the palms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...York cabs; if her destination is more than four blocks away, Gelsey starts waving an arm. On the street she is indistinguishable from the thousands of women who have achieved thrift-shop eclecticism, a mildly deracinated New York look: jeans or slacks, boots or clogs, bulky sweater, dangling scarf, knit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Stacy is 18, a high school senior in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Now she pulls on blue jeans, a sports shirt, and ties her curly hair back with a scarf. She wears a tiny teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Stacy's Day at the Abortion Clinic | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Finally, bundled in an overcoat and scarf against an early-morning chill, he boarded Air Force One and began his journey, which will take him a third of the way around the world and into 1978. Accompanying him were 200 reporters, cameramen and TV technicians on two chase planes and an official party of 13 on the presidential jet, including Wife Rosalynn, Brzezinski, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his wife Grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Winging His Way into '78 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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