Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer of Jefferson County (Louisville), Republican Marlow W. Cook, 42, was prepared for advancement. His hard-line policy on Viet Nam and tough stand on riots appealed to Kentucky voters more than the moderately liberal philosophy of his Democratic opponent, former Kentucky Commissioner of Commerce Katherine G. Peden, only woman member of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders...
There will be no lack of interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House...
...INDIANA. Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb, 50, is a trim (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) George Romney look-alike whose wife Pat is widely regarded as the prettiest woman on the Indiana political scene. A bomber navigator in World War II, Whitcomb was captured by the Japanese, later wrote a book called Escape from Corregidor, which he distributed by the thousands during his campaign. In his race against Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Rock, the Democratic nominee, conservative Whitcomb promised to veto any rise in state taxes, even though the Indiana treasury is bare...
UNTIL 18 months ago an American woman in virtually all the states could get a legal abortion only to save her life, and only after surmounting forbidding legal obstacles. Since then, five states have liberalized their punitive 19th century abortion laws. They now permit therapeutic abortions to be performed if the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case...
...year, 24 hospitals set up abortion committees, and abortions were performed in 21 of these (three received no applications). A survey by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado Medical Center showed that of the 407 patients aborted, 278 (or 68%) were Colorado residents. The woman's mental health, not previously admissible as a ground for abortion, was the reason most frequently advanced under the new law? in 291 cases, or 72%. Next commonest were fetal indications, invoked for 47 patients, and 46 rape cases, of which 32 were statutory and 14 "forcible." Medical reasons involving...