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Women who do work have long been paid less and received fewer benefits, often on the excuse that they might become pregnant. Glenna Lehtonen, now a housewife with two babies in East Templeton, Mass., was one of the three women whose successful suit against Massachusetts Electric established that under the state ERA, pregnancy is just another biological contingency that must be included in routine disability plans. So far, Mrs. Lehtonen's cash award for several pregnancy-related illnesses has been only $97. The court decision in her case, however, grants rights that the U.S. Supreme Court, without...
...going to be a catastrophe. It almost happened here when the Congressman was nearly killed here. [A cultist had attacked Ryan with a knife.] You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. [Some of the defectors were children whose parents had split on whether to flee or stay.] We've been so terribly betrayed...
...immediate danger of losing his job. Chirac, who had convened the emergency parliamentary session in order to embarrass Giscard, was quickly outmaneuvered last week. When the Socialists and Communists called for a no-confidence motion against the coalition government, Chirac was reluctantly forced to support Barre. The leftists, whose family quarrels contributed heavily to their defeat in last year's elections, are still divided. The Communist and Socialist parties could not agree even on the wording of a no-confidence motion, with the result that the two parties produced their own motions...
Last-week the Business Roundtable, whose members are the chief executives of some 190 of the nation's biggest corporations, issued its long-awaited report on regulation costs. The study, conducted by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen, was a significant measure of the actual financial impact of regulation as experienced by companies...
DIED. John McLean Clifford, 74, former president of Curtis Publishing whose frugal reign failed to resuscitate the financially ill company, leading to the 1969 demise of its flagship magazine, the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. A lawyer, Clifford became president of the Philadelphia company in 1964, inheriting bank debts totaling $37 million. Though he showed a small surplus in 1966, he was unable to stem further losses and was ousted...