International Women's Year boosts global progress and policy
The United Nations declared International Women's Year to spur action worldwide. Governments move to empower women with equal public office access, anti discrimination laws, and health and labor reforms while U.N. efforts push for a Mexico City conference and strong national programs.
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William N. Oatis
Associated Press
United Nations
N.Y
Gough Whitlan
Australia
U.N
Michael Manley
Jamaica
IWY
Uganda
Vatican
Bernadette Olowo
International Labor Organization
Bella Abzug
D-N.y
Patsy T. Mink
D-Hawaii
White House
Italy
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare
Ministry of Health
Syria
Women’s International Democratic Federation
East Berlin
U.N. Commission On the Status
Mexico City
Ashraf Pahlevi
Iran
Asst
Helvi Sipila
Finland
No iron cotton fabric promises by spring
Miss Marguerite Lust, 21, Arizona Maid of Cotton, touts a 100 percent cotton fabric that resists wrinkling and shrinking via Cotton Press 10-11, with market debut planned next spring. She notes California and Arizona lead in production and yield, and highlights cotton’s durability, dye retention, cooling in summer, heating in winter, and environmental benefits.
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Research and Development Institute
Cotton Inc
Arizona
Marguerite Lust
California
Texas
Miss Lust
Mexico
South
Los Angeles
Carriage House
Westwood
New York City
Fire Department
United States
Mortar Board
New York
Memphis
Tenn
First Women Voters Honored by Lakewood Long Beach Group
Seventy-five years after the 19th Amendment, seven original voters were honored at a LLBRWF luncheon in Lagunita Room Bullock’s Lakewood. Certificates were presented by Steve Kinney as Mrs. Wallace Morgan spoke. Honorees included Bertha Harms Eleanor Falconer Rachel McCutchan Martha Case Edith Chamberlen Dorothy Coates and Iern Lingle.
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Bertha Harms
Martha Case
Lakewood
Long Beach
Republican
Roger Coar
Lagunita
Bullock's
Steve Kinney
George Deukmejian
Wallace Morgan
Llbrwf
Mmes
Eleanor Falconer
Rachel McCutchan
Edith Chamberlen
Dorothy Coates
Iern Lingle
Falconer
Massachusetts
Magdalena
N.M
Oregon
Lingle
California
Case
Mt. Olive
Ill
Election Board
Banking on memory theme falls flat in a Bombeck tale
A dinner table story about a librarian robbed of money spirals into a memory and checkbook joke exchange. The husband muses on record keeping and paranoia as the couple bonds over misfiled checks and a mock encounter with Mark Twain.
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Jack and
Ardis
Mark Twain
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Transport and General Workers’ Union
Kurt Waldheim
Waldheim Long
Secretariat
U.N. Women
Copenhagen
Klara Zetkin
Germany
Valerie Pettis
World Federation of United Nations Associations
Israel
Council of Women’s Organizations
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Col
LK. Acheampong
Ghana
Julius Nyerere
Tokyo
Peking
Tienanmen Square
Indira Gandhi
Ministry of External Affairs
India
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Gerald Ford
U.S. Commission
Boston
Fran Hosken
U.S
Pam Curtis
State Department
Mildred Persinger
Young Women’s Christian Association
Tribune
Washington
Congress
Administration
Press-Telegram
Calif
Joyce Christensen
Wit’s End
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