Self Defense Turns Women Into Victims Fears Drive Strength
N Y Times report on Susan Murdock who runs a women’s self defense program in New York and at Brooklyn College and Sarah Lawrence. The piece notes her belief that fear of men makes women vulnerable and chronicles students learning to fight, including tactics and the rise in reported rapes, with police observations on reporting.
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New York
Susan Murdock
Ms. Murdock
Mary Keefe
Police Department
Keefe
First openly gay government worker serves San Francisco
Daly, a 29 year old on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission payroll since March 5, aims to protect and assist the city’s estimated 100,000 homosexual residents. She emphasizes changing employer attitudes and notes complaints from gay workers at local companies like the telephone firm.
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San Francisco
UPI
Daly
Ms. Daly
Human Rights Commission
Telephone Company
Washington, D.C
Majority oppose mandatory retirement says aging survey
Washington UPI reports a National Council on the Aging study based on Louis Harris poll finds 86 percent oppose fixed age retirement and support automatic cost of living increases for Social Security. The 245 page report challenges myths about old age and notes 37 percent of retirees did not retire by choice while 31 percent want to be working.
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Washington
UPI
National Council On the Aging
Louis Harris and Associates
United States
ONeill denied priest by his wife before death in Boston
Boston report recounts Eugene ONeill seeking a priest on 1953 near his death but blocked by his wife. Rev Richard Powers says he was dispatched when a caller claimed to be ONeill. Norton notes ONeill had long left the Catholic faith after youth and feared priestly visits.
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UPI
Eugene O’neill
Boston Herald American
Elliot Norton
Richard J. Powers
Eugene O'Neill
Shelton
Father Powers
St. Luke’s Church
Belmont
St. Cecilia’s Church
Back Bay
St. Cecilia’s
Boston University
Norton
O’neill
Waterford
Conn
God
Louis Sheaffer
O'Neill
Vincent Mackay
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Versatili
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