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Rippon works a three-day shift of twelve-hour days. She does not write her own copy, though she suggests changes to improve style and delivery. "The hardest part of the job is the mental discipline," she says. "You mustn't look as if you're concentrating, but the biggest pitfall is to lose concentration...
Still, blacks are organizing to make Carter-or whoever eventually gets the Democratic nomination-take notice of them. In a three-day meeting that ended last week in Charlotte, N.C., more than 1,000 members of the Caucus of Black Democrats brandished what is at least their negative power-withholding black votes from a candidate they consider insufficiently responsive. Said Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard Hatcher: "Any candidate running for President who feels that black people have no other option, no place to go, is in for a rude awakening. If we choose not to support any of the candidates...
Last week the Club reversed its position. At a three-day meeting in Philadelphia sponsored mainly by the First Pennsylvania Corp., a leading bank, speaker after speaker came out for more growth. Why? The Club's founder, Italian Industrialist Aurelio Peccei, says that Limits was intended to jolt people from the comfortable idea that present growth trends could continue indefinitely. That done, he says, the Club could then seek ways to close the widening gap between rich and poor nations-inequities that, if they continue, could all too easily lead to famine, pollution and war. The Club...
More than 20,000 couples will do something furtive in California this year-they will marry. State law allows confidential marriages with a minimum of fuss: no marriage license, no blood test, no three-day waiting period and, best of all, no public record that the marriage ever took place...
...Since the confidential weddings do not require proof of a blood test, some state officials are concerned about increases in the incidence of venereal disease and rubella during pregnancies. State Assemblyman Robert Burke of Huntington Beach introduced a bill last spring that would require a blood test and a three-day waiting period for all marriages, but the wedding chapels lobbied hard against the bill and killed it in committee. "Some of our customers may be frightened to death of needles," explains Steinmetz. Then, too, the tests would add to the cost of secret weddings, which usually run from...