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Would the Equal Rights Amendment mean instant equality or a chaos of broken families and unisex lavatories...
...women. Their uneasy presence, plus coed dormitories and steadily changing sexual mores, have taken some of the old frenzy out of carnival. This is not to say that Dartmouth has now achieved a kind of truce in the ancient battle of the sexes, that easy friendliness and naturalness that unisex advocates always confidently predict. Dartmouth women feel alternately belittled and beleaguered. Says one young woman, class of '79: "You have to learn in the first few weeks of being here how to say no without feeling guilty about it." Dartmouth men, especially jocks and fraternity men-the latter also...
...south remains relatively more prosperous. Women there still wear the brightly colored ao dai, in contrast to the unisex black pants and white shirt commonly worn in the north. Food is somewhat more available but less affordable, since the inflation rate exceeds 100% a year. In general, the economy of the south has suffered from Hanoi's abolition last year of "bourgeois trade" and the introduction of a uniform currency throughout the country. Southern industry is currently running at 40% of capacity. About one-fifth of the 3 million residents of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) are unemployed. Conceding...
...smiled as the words "racism" and "prejudice" crossed their lips. But their verbal jabs at busing, affirmative action and Joe Califano seemed perfunctory. It was hard to believe that the Klansmen saw any logic whatsoever in their argument against the Equal Rights Amendment--they claimed it would make unisex bathrooms mandatory in schools and in the armed forces, thereby making it easier for black men to rape white girls...
...dazzling ensemble to another during her U.S. visit last week. Many Chinese panjandrums wear silken tunics that barely bow to Mao. Sumptuousness, after all, is not exactly new to the people who created such marvels as the Ming Tombs and the Forbidden City. After decades of isolation and unisex, it is not too surprising that the Chinese should again aspire to elegance, or seek it from Paris, where some of their leaders were educated. As for Cardin: "When I was 20, a fortune teller told me that my name would be on all the walls of the cities...