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...Wilma Mankiller...
Perhaps it was the name that gave them the willies, but male voters seem to have got over their squeamishness about Wilma Mankiller. She is the first female chief of the 108,000-member Cherokee nation, the second largest U.S. tribe after the Navajos. But it took the men a while to come around after her 1987 election. "I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian," says Mankiller, 44, whose unusual last name was inherited from an 18th century warrior ancestor. She has likened her job to "running a small country, a medium-size corporation...
Here's another '60s cartoon planned as a live-action film. Producers are hoping to cast Roseanne's John Goodman as Fred and British comedian Tracey Ullman as his long-suffering wife Wilma...
...doubt about it. Florence Griffith Joyner is the First Lady of track and field. By winning three gold medals and one silver, Flo-Jo surpassed the 28- year-old record of Wilma Rudolph and nearly equaled the four golds of Holland's Fanny Blankers-Koen 40 years ago. The sex symbol of sprinting made her most dramatic strides into the record books with a stunning 200-meter race. In her first heat, she set a new Olympic record. Next day, in the semi- final, she set a new world record of 21.56; less than two hours later, she obliterated...
...kind these neighborhoods always seem to inspire, steered her through a series of Junior Olympics championships and a busy career of basketball and volleyball at Lincoln High. An admirer of the great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told her, "you'll need to express yourself...