Word: seem
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...traditional women's club has become an endangered species, with a steadily aging membership. The number of club members has dropped by more than half since 1957, to fewer than half a million. Now that more jobs, organizations and opportunities are open to women of all ages, the clubs seem to be less attractive; many are faced with either making major changes or closing down. "We're in steady decline," admits Leigh Wintz, executive director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, "and it's a difficult process to reverse...
Those women's clubs that have taken on more challenging projects seem to find members more willing to devote their time and energy to the cause. Other organizations will have to adapt their programs, schedules and rules in order * to survive. "I think we're waking up and deciding something needs to be done," says Carol Silvus, president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. Some groups are holding more events at night and on weekends and trying to broaden their membership base. The Virginia federation has established an organization for deaf women, while New Jersey has formed...
...mannered as an overly polite schoolboy, really be the notorious "Senator No," scourge of the Senate? Poor, misunderstood Jesse Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face; his sparse white hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl. But in an instant, a glint appears in his eye as he hatches yet another plan...
Still, Helms yearns to be liked and doesn't seem to grasp the extent to which he has alienated some of his brethren. Not long ago, Ted Kennedy, his $ liberal foe, was slightly injured when a tree fell on his car. "I vow that I didn't have my chain saw out there," Helms jokingly told Kennedy as they got on an elevator together. Kennedy laughed, said Helms. Perhaps, but Kennedy will not talk about Helms. Neither will Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Why not? "I have to face him," says Pell. Former Senator George McGovern feels...
...Congress have been so vilified by the press, and none have been so adept at turning it to political advantage. The darts just seem to pass through him. "I never lost a minute's sleep over criticism, and I never shall," he declares. Senators who oppose him on key issues, he says, simply lack the facts or the political courage. And the uncommitted? "The Lord spoke of those who are neither hot nor cold. He said, 'I spew them out of my mouth,' and I think a lot of folks are crying out to be spewed...