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...racist, sexist, elitist, noble-nigger paper." (A noble-nigger is someone who refuses to back off from a position, even when they're wrong.) Monique Belton '75 Rosalyn Kelson '76 Linda C. Buck '75 Mark Lomax '75 A' Lelia Bundles '74 Cheryl McQueen '74 Denise E. Conley '75 Rita Nethersole '74 June V. Cross '75 Paula Pinkston '74 Avarita L. Hanson '75 Debi Tanner '75 M. Keith Horton '76 Erin Walker...
...September 1970 New York City Teacher Gary Ackerman asked the board of education for an unpaid paternity leave so that he could spend more time with his daughter Lauren, then ten months old. Turned down, he went AWOL from his job, with his wife Rita filed a complaint of discrimination with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sued the board in U.S. district court. Their argument: granting child-care leaves only to women is an invasion of privacy because it forces mothers to be housekeepers and child rearers and prevents husbands and wives from dividing up family responsibilities...
...violence of Paul and Jeanne's affair are consistent with what has come out over the years about Brando's tempestuous love life, punctuated as it has been by the birth of one child out of wedlock and by such eruptions as the attempted suicide of Actress Rita Moreno at his home in 1961. They are also consistent with his record of two marriages and two divorces followed by court wrangles over the custody of his three legitimate children...
...CURRENT PRODUCTION is pretty close to perfect. Rita Hargrave successfully accomplishes the remarkable feat of directing and choreographing a show about a chorus girl without a chorus. One particularly effective moment occurs about halfway through Ruby's third or fourth misunderstanding with Dick. In this case she has caught him kissing Ellen Martin, the established star--the one who gets sick later so Ruby can take her place--who's been ravenously pursuing him. When Ruby breaks into a mournful little number called "Raining in My Heart," the rest of the cast comes out to dance around her in plastic...
...reason most frequently given for this change of heart is Israel. "As an issue, Israel is primordial," says Rita Hauser, a Nixon campaign director in New York City. On that issue, the President has proved himself. He has provided as much economic and military assistance to Israel as all the White House predecessors combined; in times of crisis he has stood up to the Soviet Union in the Middle East. McGovern is more of a mystery. At first he was too dovish: he wanted the Israelis to return just about all the territories they had conquered from the Arabs...