Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the scavengers, mostly women and older people picking up what they could. It was at this point, as stores were picked bare, that most of the firebombs flared and late-arriving looters tended to get arrested. Thus a Washington survey found that most looters who got bail were mature, jobholding family people, but it did not take into account the fact that three out of four of those arrested were juveniles, and that these were quickly released without charge...
...Corporal Mary Elizabeth Burns's secretarial job involved relaying personal radio messages from Leathernecks in Viet Nam to their families at home and was scarcely belligerent, she decided that all war work was wrong. And so the pert, blue-eyed blonde dropped out of the 2,550-strong Women's Marine Corps. Doffing her serge greens, she told her commander that she was not reporting for duty, and then refused her $223.20 monthly paycheck...
Many simply slid down the wet decks into the water. Women screamed for their children. People careened along the corridors toward the lifeboat stations. A man who was helping his fellow passengers, Ian MacDonald, later reported that he worked with one hand grabbing the rail "and the other grasping hands, shoulders, legs and even hair to stop tumbling bodies." As the huge ship started sinking, those who could get aboard lifeboats rowed furiously away. Others tried to swim for it. One crewman jumped in with a child under each arm. In the icy waters, mothers cradled their babies in life...
...image as a carefree ladies' man and swinger. "I expect to start mounting some opposition to my former self," he said. "I will not be the Pierre Elliott Trudeau I used to be." The demands of his new job will see to that. Rather than leggy young women, he suddenly found himself surrounded by burly bodyguards. Instead of driving his powder blue Mercedes, he is now being chauffeured in a Chevrolet. And at week's end, forgoing the usual victory parties, he went into seclusion "somewhere on the continent" to bone...
...Maimon Cohen, geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reported last week that in a study of 220 LSD users between 70% and 80% showed chromosomal damage in their blood cells-four times the normal rate. What is more, he said, babies of women who had taken LSD during the first three months of pregnancy showed increased chromosome breaks in body cells...