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...Ms. King turned Bobby Riggs into a male chauvinist rabbit...
...years ahead, Kaunda will face another kind of internal challenge: finding ways of transferring power to the younger, better educated men now entering Zambian politics. They openly resent the old-guard politicians for their corruption, incompetence and perks of power, which the younger men refer to as the "three Ms" - mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and mistresses. But for the moment, Kaunda is indisputably the national hero, and his re-election is assured. His most impressive triumph will presumably come late next year - perhaps on Oct. 24, the tenth anniversary of his country's independence - when he stands at the throttle...
...followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...
...showed herself to be one of a new breed. Her eyes remained dry throughout her coronation. When her sister said she expected to see Becky cry only on her wedding day, Becky retorted: "That's not a very realistic possibility," adding that she might not even get married. Ms. America, an Iowa farmer's daughter and college graduate, has other plans first, like law school and a juvenile court judgeship...
Helen Gahagan Douglas, 72, the former actress whom her opponent in the 1950 California Senate race dubbed the "Pink Lady" because of her supposed links with the Communist Party ("[She] is pink right down to her underwear,"declared Richard Nixon), has turned up again, on the cover of Ms. magazine...