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...face of American politics changed tonight," said Sylvia Watson of Louisville. Yes, but the significance of the change was that it was not an isolated stroke. The choice of Ferraro simply made it impossible to go on ignoring the changes that women like Watson had already achieved. A wife, a mother of two daughters, a second-term county commissioner, she said, "When I was elected in 1978, I was the first woman in the area to serve on a county commission. I got 95,000 votes after beginning a race with 2% name recognition. The men I worked with could...
There is, among them, even one old-style, Chariots of Fire amateur, the kind with true-blue attitudes and prosperous parents. John Biglow is a lean, powerful, awesomely fit man of 6 ft. 3 in. and 188 Ibs. who rowed stroke on the Yale crew. After gradation in 1980, he went back to his home in Bellevue, Wash., to talk things over with his father, Attorney Lucius H. Biglow Jr. "I think he was asking, Was rowing a respectable thing to do?" recalls the elder Biglow. His father gave his approval, but that was not all that John Biglow...
...Mitterrand's troubles, the Communist walkout bore all the signs of a craftily engineered blessing. Holding 285 of the 491 seats in the National Assembly, the Socialists do not need the Communists in order to stay in power. In one stroke, Mitterrand managed to boost his party's fortunes well before the legislative elections that must take place by June 1986, and to end an awkward situation in which the Communists were incessantly criticizing the very government of which they were a part. He decided to replace the genial but politically discredited Mauroy, 56, with a new leader...
...season ended on June 5, Mondale was almost certainly assured of a delegate majority, but he suffered a jolting loss in California, and his candidacy looked shaky. Reagan, bolstered by a reviving economy, was growing stronger by the week. To Mondale and his men, the need for a bold stroke became increasingly apparent. Said one aide: "We needed a tremendous lift, no matter the risk...
Feminism has scored no more spectacular triumph since women won the right to vote. Even with universal suffrage, American women had enjoyed, until last Thursday, nothing more than the right to elect a man to the White House. With one swift stroke, however, the Democrats have made it possible for women to enter the final phase of their enfranchisement. Win or lose in November, Geraldine Ferraro is now emblematic of the truest, purest facet of the American dream: that every citizen is entitled to an equal chance. In this version of the dream, the idea is that every child...