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...Supreme Court could not have done everything we ask today." Thoroughgoing equality under the law would not change every custom and practice, but social change is the more difficult without legal reform. In any case, "the articulation of legal protections for women has begun," says EEOC Legislative Counsel Sonia Pressman Fuentes. "Already women can echo the words of Martin Luther King: 'We ain't what we oughta be, we ain't what we wanta be, we ain't what we gonna be but thank God we ain't what...
...pried from his comfortable calendar of winters in St. Petersburg and vacations in the Crimea by the 1918 revolution. He emigrates via Yalta to Greece, Switzerland, and England, where he eventually studies at Cambridge. There he is overwhelmed both by unrequited love for a bitchy girl named Sonia Zilanov and by seductive images of his lost Russia infracted "through the prismatic wave of memory...
...when Sonia is behaving less churlishly than usual, she and Martin dream up a northern place called Zoorland. Abruptly, Martin embraces the imaginary country as his homeland and is last seen embarking on a trip across its borders. Unfortunately, Zoorland's physical equivalent is the Soviet Union, where the balmy pilgrim will almost certainly be shot as a spy. But his disappearance hardly seems tragic, for he is so patently a repository of memory and romance. Indeed, one of his earliest temptations is to step into a picture in his Crimean bedroom showing a path that disappears into...
...shadowy figure skulks in a doorway of the official Canberra residence of Australian Prime Minister William McMahon. Challenges, shots, anticlimaxes. The intruder gets away, the fuse in the Molotov cocktail he planted is blown out by the wind, and the P.M. and his pretty wife Sonia weren't there anyway. But Commonwealth police say that this is the third such bombing attempt by a group of right-wing extremists. Nothing to do but increase the guard at the McMahons' home...
President Nixon asked for the couple's favorite song, and the Army Strolling Strings struck up Fascination ("Just a passing glance, just a brief romance . . ."). McMahon had sung that song to Sonia, he said, on the night he proposed to her. When she hesitated he sang the song ten times and "was just about to give up" when she finally accepted...