Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest Los Angeles rally was planned for U.S.C., with Black Leader Ralph Abernathy, the U.A.W.'s Paul Schrade and Senator Alan Cranston as speakers. Women Strike for Peace organized a vigil at the veterans' cemetery in West Los Angeles. At suburban Whittier College, Richard Nixon's alma mater, there were to be no classes during the M-day campus rally. A Canoga Park housewife, Mrs. Diane Steffin, finds M-day a happy outlet for the antiwar feelings she has had since 1965. "Until now," she says, "there didn't seem to be any way short of going to college...
Guard Mobilized. After failing in their first attempt to set off widespread violence, the radicals tried again the next day. Seventy helmeted Weather-women, many equipped with clubs, attempted to march on an armed-forces induction center. But the Amazons fared no better than their men. A line of police withstood their charge, arrested twelve, and dispersed the rest...
...Augustine, he spent his youth exulting in the pleasures of the flesh and his later years exalting the spirit. More immediate was the puritanical impact of the Moslems, whose Mogul empire controlled the subcontinent from 1526 until the early 1700s. The confusion in attitudes persists; while most Indian women haughtily reject the ubiquitous miniskirt, the partygoing younger ones have adopted the "hipster sari." The bottom portion is tied low enough to expose a generous expanse of the upper derrière, while the top, or choli, has been reduced to startlingly provocative dimensions...
...them more just, more German and more morally korrekt than the permissive, cosmopolitan atmosphere of the West. It is also more drab, despite all the new prosperity and the new buildings. Parts of East Germany have an oldfashioned, almost prewar look. Other parts have yet to be rebuilt. Women make up 46.9% of the working force, one of the highest ratios in the world. They are everywhere-directing traffic, working on construction sites and painting buildings...
There were no arrests or violence, although several women taunted soldiers and civilians standing inside the gates...