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During the years of my involvement with school, the members of my family have all become infected with the idea of equal opportunities for women, and we have no arguments about whether a woman should be a doctor, a truck driver, President, or subject to the draft. We do somehow often seem to get stuck, however, at details like who does the dishes or whose turn it is to clean the bathroom. Until the rise of the recent Women's Movement, I accepted the family's help with "my" household chores gratefully. Now I wonder what divine...
...February and showed a drastic change. There had been a massive erosion of Muskie strength to 49%, and a major growth in George McGovern strength of 13 points to 31%. Even as Becker's pollsters made their second round of 435 sampling calls, Muskie was mounting a flatbed truck in the campaign's single dramatic moment to denounce, in tears, Manchester Publisher William Loeb. Another "final" poll was ordered by the Globe; it showed Muskie strength off still more to 42%, McGovern at 26%, and the number of undecideds inexplicably doubled...
...early morning last week, Robert Nogrette, 63, left his apartment in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt to walk a block to the state-operated Renault automobile factory, where he has been chief of labor relations for 37 years. At 7:35 a.m., a white Renault pickup truck pulled up alongside. Two young men in beige raincoats and caps leaped out, grabbed and chloroformed Nogrette, threw him into the truck and sped away. The kidnaping stirred up a wave of popular revulsion and inspired the Paris police to one of the most intensive man hunts in its history. The reason...
...first the Burbidges accepted this arrangement. Then one day Mrs. Burbidge was refused use of an observatory truck to haul her scientific gear up the mountain. That did it: the Burbidges formally protested the antiwoman rule...
Vance Hartke did make it to the firehouse. He was preceeded by about five minutes worth of sound truck jibber. "Vance Hartke, author of such-and-such Vance Hartke, champion of civil rights. Vance Hartke, friend of the veteran," and so on. The name is strange to begin with, and upon repetition it starts to sound like a call to arms: vance hartkee' The senator arrived with his chesterfield coat, one wife and three of ten kids, two of whom seemed absorbed in a 7-up. The Hartke people all wore styrofoam skimmers and balloons, but the Senator seemed annoyed...