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Finding them may not be easy. Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, and General Earle G. Wheeler, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both hastily denied having ordered the falsifications. Henry Kissinger also asserted no knowledge of the Air Force's peculiar reporting procedures. After considerable doubletalk, the Pentagon finally issued a public statement saying only that the falsification processes were "authorized and directed from Washington...
Natural or not, Bonnie Wheeler has been boarding a plane at 8 o'clock every Tuesday morning in Cleveland, where her husband Robert is an assistant professor of American history at Cleveland State, and flying 405 miles eastward to New York City, where she herself teaches English 94001X (Medieval Literature) at Columbia. From Tuesday to Thursday, she occupies a two-room apartment on Manhattan's West Side and communicates with her husband only by telephone ($100 a month). On Thursdays she wings back to Cleveland. Her husband picks her up at the airport and drives her to their...
Controlled Chaos. "Most people I know would be terribly unhappy with this kind of life," says Mrs. Wheeler. "But I enjoy sharing things with someone whose own life-style lends itself to this peculiar situation. The times we have apart make us more conscious of the time we have together. The labors of living are totally divided by convenience. Any one of the three of us might make dinner or vacuum the house. It's a life of controlled chaos...
Despite these innovations, an academic wife looking for a job is apt to find one far from home; then, like Bonnie Wheeler, she must decide whether she or her husband will face the rigors of long-distance commuting...
...takes a strong sense of purpose to drive such women to such lengths, but that kind of purpose is becoming increasingly common. Bonnie Wheeler, too, spends most of her $12,000 salary on her $600-a-month commuting and apartment bill. It does not faze her. "I feel as though I'm in the second generation of liberation," she says. "The first generation, that of my women professors at Brown, taught me that there were alternatives to staying home and being a housewife. There is nothing bizarre about a traveling salesman, but somehow the male idea of the female...