Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America basketball player at U.C.L.A. for four straight years, the only woman ever so honored. As a senior, she led the Bruins to their first women's national championship. A star of the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, she can shoot and rebound well, but she excels as a playmaker. She sharpened her skills in pickup games against the guys - and the guys were the N.B.A. playmates of her big brother Dave, a U.C.L.A. All-America and now a power forward for the Milwaukee Bucks. At the age of 24, Ann Meyers is the paradigm of the new woman athlete...
...last week, she stepped out of her league. For $50,000, Meyers signed with the Indiana Pacers to become the first woman ever given a contract in men's bigtime professional sports.* This week she joins the Pacers' rookie camp to start the daunting struggle of winning a place in the high-pressure and punishing world of the pros. Among her competition for the eleven-person regular season roster is Indi ana's No. 1 draft choice, Dudley Bradley of North Carolina. A measure of the task facing Meyers...
...largest school bus manufacturers. One of the first Northern cities to carry out court-ordered desegregation, in 1971, Pontiac also became one of the first flash points of busing violence. White mothers chained themselves to block school buses. Six Ku Klux Klan members threw fire bombs. One woman even expressed her outrage by walking 620 miles to complain to Congressmen in Washington...
Others cited Vellucci's work on behalf of Cambridge's elderly as their reason for backing him. "Being old himself, he understands and feels for us," a woman said. "The old are the Socrates of the cities and he takes care of them," another added...
...everyone, even those who said they were saving their number one votes for another candidate, said they liked Vellucci as a man. "He's a great humanitarian--put that in your paper," one woman insisted...