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...President Shirley Chisholm," she said, fantasizing freely, "is seriously concerned about the rising adult male delinquency rate, especially among retired Defense Department officials and Pentagon generals. The President is thinking about instituting some play-therapy groups, in which they could work out their aggressive feelings. Anti-machismo Secretary Gloria Steinem proposed that we convert the Pentagon into housing for the elderly and play centers." Later, Congresswoman Abzug reported in her dream of the future, she "returned to Capitol Hill, where we're still deadlocked on the bill proposing amnesty for Henry Kissinger...
...sisterly hair pulling, Women's Liberator Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique) allowed as how Editor-Founder Gloria Steinem of Ms. magazine is "ripping off the movement for private profit. The media tried to make her a celebrity," Betty went on, "but no one would mistake her for a leader." Ms. Steinem said that her "stomach dropped" on hearing the remark. The truth, she replied, "is that the magazine has cost a lot of money, and it continues to cost me money, and every penny is worth it." Ms. Friedan responded by claiming she had been quoted out of context...
...does social consciousness; sisterhood is expanding to embrace over half of mankind. A new magazine for women, "Ms.", has just made its debut. These days the fact that it is written, published and edited by women, and headed by no less of a cult heroine than Gloria Steinem, imbues the whole thing with a bit of chic. Men as well as women have been paying $1.50 for the privilege of glancing through the shiny red spring preview issue emblazoned with an eight-armed blue woman. And discussions of it have begun to float around the dining halls...
...Kissinger wit can always be counted on. As a guest speaker at the Washington Press Club's annual congressional dinner last week, Kissinger mocked his reputation as a secret swinger. Noting that Gloria Steinem had said that she "is not now and never has been a girl friend" of his, Kissinger declared that he was not discouraged. "After all, she did not say that if nominated she would not accept, or if elected she would not serve...
...also announces several surprise appointments: Charles P. Whitlock, Archie C. Epps and Hilary Putnam to be co-Deans of Harvard College and Gloria Steinem to be president of Radcliffe ("that's about 2.5 to 1, isn't it?"); and Martin Peretz to be vice president for development. "Marty's a great scholar and fundraiser," Bok says, "so as long as McCarthy doesn't run again and there's peace in the Middle East, we should have nachas for a long time to come...