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...must grant the artist his subject, his idea ..." sounds as if the artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology is "as in hermaphrodite...
...Senate, Sen, George D. Aiken (R-Ver.) urged the nations of Southeast Asia to convene their own international conference, in Asia, to settle the war in Indochina. Stating that peace "cannot be imposed by others," Aiken suggested that such a conference should include Japan, Communist China, and the Soviet Union. "I cannot believe that Russia has of late bad a vested interest in keeping up the conflict in Indochina," he said...
This is the conclusion of David I. Ver-way, a Michigan State University economist, who compiled the totals from Government reports. Verway reported last week that the percentage of women who stay home to keep house has slipped to 48.4%, compared with 57% in 1957. The greatest increase in working women has been among those who are married and have children...
...Using "lots of spins and changes of pace," Gonzalez won the first set at the service line. "I used to hit aces out of sheer power," he explains. "Now I hit them out of deception." Though he lost the next two sets, he began to establish a pattern: "La-ver's not a very tall fellow and I felt that if I could get my lob going when he came to the net, I could work him pretty hard and penetrate more with a passing shot." In the final two sets the steady punching began to tell. Driven back...
...Those backing the withdrawal motion then benefitted from a parliamentary foul-up. Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, ver-bally stumbled as he moved that the Faculty recess to a convocation in effect that they not vote as an official body on Vietnam...