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Since federal funds help to pay for textbooks, it is argued that school boards using sexist texts may be sued under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, which forbids sex discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The first such suit was brought last May in Michigan by a group called the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. After studying twelve readers for Grades 1 through 6, the committee filed a complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The complaint alleges, among other charges, that 80% of the leading characters...
...sales taxes with a progressive income tax, rent control, a referendum on the as yet unexpected 18-year-old vote, a Vietnam peace initiative, the construction of low-cost housing, a city affirmative action program, stricter antipollution legislation, prosecution of war researchers at the university, the elimination of sexist books from school libraries, guaranteed adequate severance pay to workers in firms leaving Berkeley to escape unionization, the construction of bicycle paths, youth hostels and more parks, and even the addition of long cords on all public telephones so that people in wheelchairs and children could reach them more easily...
...Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...
...acting in Graffiti is sufficient. The female leads are exceptional in their ability to remind us what it was like to grow up female in the sexist sixties. Ronny Howard, who played Sheriff Taylor's son on the Andy Griffith Show, gives the film's only unsatisfactory performance as the dolt...
...loser $100,000 because of shares in the ancillary rights-everything from buttons (Bobby Riggs-Bleah!) to popcorn. Thus, the players' pot will set a tennis record. And, though King is reluctant to join in the hoopla, though she tries to avoid responding to the sexist gambit that has become Riggs' credo (see box page 56), she is not above capitalizing on the happening. Recently she filmed an electric-shaver commercial with Riggs. Set in a Boeing 747 mockup, the scenario has Billie Jean walking past a row of Riggs look-alikes and muttering, "I think they ought...