Sexual harassment highlighted during Awareness Week in Odessa
Crisis director Margaret Burton of Odessa's Rape Crisis Center notes many women misidentify harassment as part of work. The piece covers causes, reporting routes to EEOC and Texas Human Rights Commission, and the need for documentation, witnesses, and assertiveness, amid funding and agency delays.
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Margaret Burton
Rape Crisis Center
Odessa
Texas Department of Health
Texas Association Against Sexual Assault
Burton
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
el Paso
Texas Human Rights Commission
Austin
Melissa Hirsch
Hirsch
Reagan
EEOC
Misconceptions On Marie Antoinette Let Them Eat Cake
Readers debate the origin of the phrase Let them eat cake with letters from Gretchen Habel and H S Ballard. They cite Rousseau and Alphonse Karr, noting the remark predates Marie Antoinette and may reflect misquotation.
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Abby
Marie Antoinette
Gretchen Habel
Belleville
Mich
Gretchen
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Tom Burnam
Alphonse Karr
Tuscany
Karr
Bells Tie Animal Lore to Utility in Stories and History
New York AP report highlights Terry Mayer a bell collector and designer noting bells deter predators and aid caravan safety. Describes bells on camels in deserts elephants to deter tigers and guide drivers, turkeys used against birds, and sheep believed to gain weight from bells. ABA publishes The Bell Tower. national president is George Nader.
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New York
Terry Mayer
Metropolitan
The
American Bell Association
Mayer
She
Bell Tower
Louise Collins
ABA
Natrona Heights
George Nader
West Point
King Kong looms over Frankfurt as film effects tour opens
In West Germany the German Film Museum hosts a retrospective on special effects in cinema. More than 80,000 visitors since March view props from King Kong to Return of the Jedi, with rare diagrams and taped commentary explaining techniques. The exhibit, organized by Rolf Giesen, includes a disemboweled panther prop, Frankensteins laboratory elements, a Monster of the Campus isopropyl model, and other iconic pieces from classic films.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
Anusewma
Rolf Giesen
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Rover
Nda’s Raya
W. County Road
Western Manor
Abacus
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