Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maynard Wallace ("Wink1') Marshall, an urbane NBS nightly newscaster whose voice-charmed life demonstrates "how well a reasonably brainy man can do if he just doesn't use his brains.'' However. Wink does have an age problem, and it is all tied up with sex and suburbia...
...stocky, even-tempered spinster, an ex-schoolteacher and the proprietress of a Rumford gift shop, a Roman Catholic of French Canadian descent, effective minority leader of the state legislature and the darling of Maine's resurgent Democrats. Lucia Cormier was chosen to oppose Margaret Smith for her sex-but before she could claim the senatorial-race plum she proved in the rough-and-tumble school of state politics that she could outshine the men around...
...Women Are People." Politicians of both sexes have had trouble adjusting to woman's place in politics, and the chemistry of sex has brought some changes in political techniques. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater maintains that a man facing a woman in politics faces unusual problems: "They're very difficult to run against. It's like walking on eggs. You have to be careful that in fighting her politically you don't get so hard on her that it creates sympathy for her." Once elected, though, women are even harder to dislodge from their political...
...really don't think being a woman in politics is different from being a man. After all, elections are based on the issues, and any capable woman can develop an understanding of the issues, can present them and can win at the polls." Margaret Smith thinks that sex has nothing to do with it: "I consider that women are people, and that the record they make is a matter of ability and desire rather than of their sex. I came here as a United States Senator, not as a woman...
...Clare Williams, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee: "If you pulled all the women out of either party, the actual party structure would collapse." No man would deny that fact, for American men, so unwilling for so long to share their franchise, must now agree that the opposite sex is indispensable, even in politics...