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...stalling of ERA is a tribute to its opponents' impassioned well-organized campaign. Some have tried to scare the public with exaggerated warnings of legalized homosexual marriages, unisex public toilets and other horrors. More restrained critics have wondered if the amendment is really necessary, since women's rights (as well as men's) are protected by the 14th Amendment. At the very least, they claim, the ERA would swamp already overcrowded courts and lead to more Government intervention. Until fallible judges start ruling, nobody would be sure whether women would have to serve alongside men in military...
Recurrent sleazy skirmishes between male musicians and female groupies are sexual battles in which the women always lose, and being around the carnage is uncomfortable. In the movable madhouse of life on the road, the unisex nourishments are drugs and booze. Janis Joplin, the first great white woman rocker, rattled the bars of the madhouse, but she died of mind solvent...
...details of Madame Mao's love of luxury appear every week for the benefit of China's 800 million men and women who live a spartan existence, clothed in the ubiquitous unisex padded jacket and trousers. It has been alleged that Chiang Ch'ing secretly ordered two dozen custom-made dresses in the space of one month, at a total cost of 760 yuan ($400). On a visit to the agricultural commune of Tachai, Chiang Ch'ing "arrived by special train with an entourage of 100 persons," recalled a local official. "Her personal effects...
...Miller getting into unisex gear. His problem is overdeveloped hamstring muscles. Rather than be hobbled by a pulled or sore hamstring, Miller dons his Free Spirit before every practice and every game. "A runner like me," he explains, "needs muscle control when I stop, start and make my cuts. The girdle keeps my hamstring from flapping around." Says Dr. Don Cooper, the Oklahoma State team physician who sold Miller and three of his teammates on the idea last season: "The girdle provides an evenness of support over the whole length of the hamstring, from the pelvic bone to the back...
...still find barber poles, shaving mugs and $3.50 haircuts in Cambridge, but it is harder than it was five years ago: men are now avoiding barber shops and patronizing unisex hairstyling salons...