Word: tirelessness
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Gloria Steinem, 38. "The main accomplishment is a change of consciousness and the way of looking at the world, the raising up of the grid on sex and race. But the change in view has yet to take economic and structural forms." During three years of tireless lecturing about the women's movement, Steinem has done much to change viewpoints, and now she is retiring from the talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women...
...with precision. The Polish team, which upset England in the elimination rounds, arrived in West Germany relatively unknown. Though the Poles do not favor the star system, not even the most solid collective front could hide Grzegorz Lato, a great right forward who leads the team's bruising, tireless attack. Going into last weekend, the Polish team had the best record in Cup play...
Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France...
...citation describes him as "a tireless opponent of poverty and injustice, a stalwart Christian leader offering life and hope to the downtrodden and defeated...
...York Times, which had editorially questioned his right to a Nobel Peace Prize last year for arranging the controversial cease-fire hi Viet Nam (seepage 41), decided last week that "by his tireless diligence and unswerving devotion to the cause of peace, Secretary Kissinger has without question earned the honor now"?although Times Columnist James Reston, among others, had doubts about the propriety of a Secretary of State's being so tied down to a single problem for so long a tune. Mrs. Meir hailed the fact that "children on both sides of the border can sleep well without...