Word: ducking
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...Alternative. To duck such opposition, some women lawyers go into practice with their husbands. Others choose jobs with such organizations as the Legal Aid Society, where the pay is low but the work is varied and women are welcome. Some of the ablest go into politics or civil rights work-or both, as did Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, who has argued Supreme Court cases as Assistant Counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and last month became the first Negro woman to be elected to the New York state senate...
...yearling can be a wonderful icebreaker," says the wife of Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. And they already have quite a collection of monikers for their just-named two-year-olds. There's Kiss of Death, a daughter of Femme Fatale, Gone Goose, by Crafty Admiral out of Sitting Duck, and Shakedown Cruise, by Sailor out of Plucky Maid. But the game has one drawback: like any horse owners, the Vanderbilts are the final arbiters. Smiles Jean: "I must admit most of the names we finally select are the ones my husband thinks...
...West African chimpanzee with a penchant for paint, who lives in Sweden's Boras zoo. Newsmen on the Goteborgs-Tidningen, a Goteborg daily, got Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give him a brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation that its tart flavor was what inspired him to use it in his work...
...workday of Pet Milk President Theodore R. Gamble frequently begins at 5:30 a.m. in a duck blind near his St. Louis home, and he has been known to spend two hours shooting before he drives to the office. Even in a blind, Gamble follows his fetish for utilizing time; when no ducks appear, he runs through paperwork or reviews Pet's problems with invited aides. Such attention to time has carried bright, youthful (39) Ted Gamble a long way in a little bit of it. He abandoned a Wall Street career to help save 79-year...
...month after nervous month, Elizabeth Taylor kept Eddie Fisher at arm's length as a kind of singing duck. It would never do to dump him, not while Richard Burton was still resisting. If Taylor had divorced Fisher and Burton had gone back to Sybil, Taylor would have lost ten-tenths of her pretty face. But if the affair had collapsed while both were still married, then it would have been just another office romance...