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Most importantly, the book tells the story of the unsung heroes of the women's movement at the Times. These are the plaintiffs of the suit--Betsy Wade Boylan, Joan Cook, Grace Glueck, Louise Carini, Andrea Skinner and Nancy Davis--all of whom received little remuneration and whose careers were in fact resigned to dead ends at the Times forever, because of their insubordination. Yet thanks to their efforts, the suit was to become "the single most important collective event in the history of the women at the Times," says Robertson. Without it, women would never have been brought into...
SPORT Jim Courier is tennis' unsung, and unspoiled, champion...
Robert Venturi, the man who launched architectural Postmodernism a quarter- century ago, is not exactly unsung: only a few of his living peers are better known, and none has been credited with more deeply influencing the way houses and cityscapes look. Still, Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, his wife and partner, feel chronically underappreciated. They have never got as much work as they might have: after almost 40 years as architects, much of that time as world-famous architects, Venturi and Scott Brown have built a few score buildings, many of those within driving distance of their office and none...
Optimists, in which the state traditionally abounds, brush off the gloomy predictions. They point to unique underlying strengths such as the nine- campus, Nobel-rich University of California, which some educators think may be the best public university in the world; the unsung incorruptibility of most of the state's civil servants; the magic copper light that descends on mile-wide beaches at sunset; even the savage majesty of streaming headlights on the freeways on a clear night. Finally, they single out what Mark Davis, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson, extols as "a new pioneer spirit" among the waves...
...unsung heroes of fullback Matt Johnson's 323-yd. effort against Brown were the men in the trenches, the offensive line...