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Before passing the Civil Rights Act last June, Congress stipulated that Title VII-the Equal Employment Opportunity section, which forbids discrimination in hiring and firing-was not to become law before the nation had a twelve-month period to study it. Last week Title VII finally went into effect. Hopefully the yearlong study period will pay off, for the new law is one of the most complex collections of dos and don'ts passed by Congress in many a stormy session...
...Title VII expressly forbids "employers, unions and employment agencies" to practice discrimination "because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin." It just as expressly allows a host of exemptions. Italian restaurateurs, for instance, are given the privilege of employing Italian chefs. Baptist clergymen may go right on hiring Baptist sextons. In one instance, Title VII authorizes reverse discrimination. The act gives employers ranging from Minnesota wild-rice farmers to New Mexico electronics manufacturers the option of hiring only American Indians...
...Congress recognized that equal employment status does not mean equal rights, and Smith's delaying tactic failed. Now women can apply for jobs from stevedore to sewer cleaner-though one exemption of Title VII permits employers to disqualify women where sex is a bona fide "occupational qualification." The Title nowhere defines what such a disqualification might be. "What do we do," asked an airline personnel manager, "when a girl walks in here with the credentials and asks for a pilot's job?" The possibilities are boundless. Must Cleveland's Exclusively Girls Employment Service change its name...
...whether he will run or not, De Gaulle looked and sounded very much the compleat candidate. He was also in imperial form. At Provins, the mayor, who happens also to be De Gaulle's Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, trumpeted: "Our town has received sovereigns: Philip Augustus, Charles VII in the company of Joan of Arc, Napoleon. But we have never received a President of the Republic. When this President is called General de Gaulle, our honor is redoubled by joy." Without a blink, De Gaulle replied: "Your reception, which moves me and makes me happy...
...rope, drinking champagne (he once cooked an omelet 150 ft. above the falls), turning somersaults, pushing a wheelbarrow while riding a bicycle, even carrying his manager across on his back. Once Blondin stumped across on stilts, a display of bravado that won him $400 from the future King Edward VII...