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...Connecticut-based organization Promoting Enduring Peace, Inc., a nationwide affiliation of 1,000 clergymen and laymen, decided in September to give their 1974 Gandhi Peace Award to Viet Nam War Protester Father Daniel Berrigan, 52. (Previous winners: the Rev. William Sloan Coffin Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath.) But after the controversial Jesuit sounded off on the Middle East war recently, attacking both Israeli and Arab leadership (TIME, Dec. 31), some of P.E.P.'s 45 board members objected. The organization's head, the Rev. Roy Pfaff, polled the full board to find out whether...
Lelia Taratus, 9, the daughter of an Atlanta orthodontist, wears jeans and plays football with the boys at recess three days a week. But she has also made a deal with her mother to wear a dress and play with the girls the other two days. Dr. Spock is reordering the pronouns in his classic book Baby and Child Care, but he has a few qualms about rearing sons and daughters with minimal sex distinctions: "No country I know of has tried to bring them up to think of themselves as similar. Such an attempt would be the most unprecedented...
Leonard B. Boudin is the name. And the man's legal defense record is an impressive march through American social history; starting with labor leaders in the thirties, to alleged Russian spies in the forties, past anti-McCarthyites in the fifties, and onto Spock, Berrigan, and Ellsberg in the last decades...
...celebrated male author read by millions of parents has thrown himself zealously into the job of excising sexist references from his work: Benjamin M. Spock, M.D. Spock is, for example, changing the pronouns "he, him, his" to "they, them, their" or adding "she, her, hers" for the 202nd printing of Baby and Child Care...
Miller joined antiwar activist Dr. Benjamin Spock, civil rights veteran Mary P. Peabody, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Jonathan Kozol '58, author of Death at an Early Age, in announcing the "non-violent, non-vindictive, non-belligerent" action...