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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those matters where he has clearly staked out a position." When liberals unsuccessfully tried to make membership on the House Rules Committee subject to caucus vote instead of under McGee's discretion, Frank voted with the leadership. He indirectly supported Mitchell's statement when he said, "I sometimes wonder why I'm so submissive...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Barney Frank: Winning by the Rules | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...wonder everybody wants to go down to Florida. Life is easy down there. And so is baseball, or maybe it just appears that way, when you look at the Harvard baseball team's successful sojourn in Sunshine Land...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Opponents On Vacation, Batsmen Romp | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...only natural if it took some time before the socialization of little girls of the middle class changes in response. Trilling's final note of despair--"If one of our outstanding women's colleges can do not better than to encourage such flaccid sentimental idealism...What chance, I wonder, have we for a female social force equal to the stupendous task of claiming a full citizenship for the second sex?"--seems overly pessimistic. On its own, Radcliffe can do very little to determine the kind of education its students seek; it could force women into marketable areas, but that would...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Imperatives of Class | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...that it would be impossible for the Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises would then be able to counterattack the Soviet Union. The number of Russian antiaircraft weapons required to shoot the incoming cruises out of the sky would bust the Kremlin's military budget. No wonder the Pentagon is so fond of the drone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Little Drone That Could | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...taken away from them. Indeed, the mood of the Indians suggests that the recovery of such intangibles is not a small item in their renaissance goals. In the land cases, the Indians' willingness to settle out of court, even with the law on their side, forces one to wonder whether the stunning size of the claims has not been intended mainly to arrest the attention of the nation, to prick its conscience, to arouse a more thoughtful response to the larger Indian awakening. If so, the campaign has won a measure of success already. The proof: intervention by President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Should We Give the US. Back to the Indians? | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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