Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mostly Nameless. During a recent speech before "Pro America," a conservative women's club, Yorty said that Los Angeles is an "experimental area for the taking over of a city by a combination of bloc voting, Black Power, left-wing radicals and, if you please, identified Communists." The evil characters that Yorty has warned of remain mostly nameless. His Red menace in the Bradley camp amounts to a campaign coordinator, Don Rothenberg, who left the party in 1956. Since then, Rothenberg has worked for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid and in the losing campaign of Oregon Senator...
...Defferre, 58, who named ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France as his running mate and future Premier, insurgent Socialist Michel Rocard, 38, and Painter-Writer Louis Ducatel, 67, campaigning as an independent gadfly "individualist." The final candidate, Alain Krivine, 27, is a Trotskyite who speaks for the young men and women of the barricades of last...
...piano plunks out a few chords, the snare picks up the beat, a bongo drum is tapped infectiously, and a low, husky female voice calls out to a chorus of men and women, which answers each phrase...
More than 800 social service organizations and programs seek to help the approximately 1,000,000 blind men, women and children in the United States. According to a devastating and controversial new survey of how the blind are treated, most of these well-intentioned service groups actually encourage a sense of helplessness and dependency on the part of their clients. In The Making of Blind Men (Russell Sage Foundation; $6), Princeton Sociologist Robert A. Scott contends that the agencies have paid far more attention to helping society tuck the social problem of blind people out of sight than to meeting...
...also contends that the agencies tend to restrict their services to those blind people whom the public finds most acceptable: children with no other handicaps and employable adults. The result is that even the occasional benefits of agency programs are generally not available to such groups as women and the elderly, who make up roughly 80% of all blind people...