Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...respect in the state senate for helping to enact Texas' first minimum-wage bill and create a department for community affairs, designed primarily to deal with the problems of urban minorities. Her admirers, who include Lyndon Johnson, expect her to rival Shirley Chisholm as the nation's top spokeswoman for the black community...
...family structure. We fear it will lead to marriage among homosexuals, the drafting of women into the Army and the crumbling of the American family." But such is the feminist movement's impact that even those opposing it have been drawn along with its basic tenets. One league spokeswoman, Mrs. Dolores H. Pelayo, insists: "We of course want equal rights and equal pay. But now they have begun to do silly things. I heard that some are protesting that in poker, for example, two kings should not beat two queens...
Such breakaway groups sometimes shrink or dissolve without a sustaining structure. The Faith Community in St. Louis, which has ties to the S.F.C.C., began with 26 members five years ago, now has seven-yet those are thriving. The sisters, says Spokeswoman Nancy Brossette, found that what they had was not so much a common goal as a common enemy-lack of money, planning and knowledge about how to make it on the outside. Many new nuns share this "reentry" problem. As one former Dominican puts...
...things a woman director is still an oddity. Dorothy Arzner started making pictures in the 1930s (Craig's Wife, The Bride Wore Red), as did Ida Lupino in the 1950s (The Hitch-Hiker, The Bigamist), but they hardly began a trend. Stage and TV Director Francine Parker, a spokeswoman of the two-year-old Film Committee of Women for Equality in Media, charges that in movies, "if anyone has to choose between you and a man, any man, it will always be the man. You just don't look right...
...Cambridge. The League of Women Voters suggests that the registrant should bring with him utility bills, a rent receipt, or a notarized statement from his landlord. Although six months of attendance at Harvard has not always been accepted as proof of Cambridge residency, it now will be, a spokeswoman for the League said...