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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grow much louder in the months to come: the militant new feminists of the Women's Liberation movement, who regard themselves as one of the most discriminated-against groups in American life today. The story was written by Ruth Brine, who was valedictorian of her class at West High School in Waterloo. Iowa, a Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the literary magazine at Vassar, and took a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. "Then, as any feminist could foresee," says Ruth, "I came to work for TIME as a clip marker, one rung below a secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...could be further from effete snobbery than Chet Huntley. Deeply -almost lyrically-affected by his childhood in Montana, he is quite simply puzzled and troubled about America. When he was a child in the West, he says, "Our idealisms were be kind to your neighbor. You respected your father and your mother, you exercised thrift and you saved-you saved for a rainy day." Today, "we really don't know ourselves. We haven't had time in the past 60 years to stop and get acquainted with ourselves. Our youngsters have idealisms which are somewhat grander in proportion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AGNEW DEMANDS EQUAL TIME | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...March Against Death," the first antiwar ritual of the week in Washington, began at 6 p.m. Thursday. Disciplined in organization, friendly in mood, it started at Arlington National Cemetery, went past the front of the White House and on to the west side of the Capitol. Walking single file and grouped by states, the protesters carried devotional candles and 24-in. by 8-in. cardboard signs, each bearing the name of a man killed in action or a Vietnamese village destroyed by the war. The candles flickering in the wind, the funereal rolling of drums, the hush over most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt last week pledged that he would sign the nonproliferation treaty this week. West Germany will be the 92nd nation to put its signature to the treaty requiring nuclear have-not nations to refrain from developing atomic weapons. Since West Germany is the most important of the "threshold nations" that could develop nuclear weaponry, the hope was that Bonn's action would spur other nations to sign the treaty. The results were mixed. While the Japanese said they would eventually sign up, the Indians still refused on the grounds that the treaty would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE START OF SALT | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...reduce the opportunity for escape to the West, East German guards at the Wall are required to patrol in pairs. Last week, however, a 19-year-old corporal grabbed his companion's carbine and pulled out the firing mechanism. As his astonished comrade watched helplessly, the young East German gingerly made his way over tank traps, trip wires, and a 10-ft. spiked fence to freedom in the British sector of West Berlin. He was the 2,183rd uniformed East German to defect since the erection of the Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Wall: Defecting Guards | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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