Year of the Fall for Women Marks a New Era in 1969
The 1969 landscape sees women breaking male strongholds across politics and society. Ruth Eisemann-Schier joins the Ten Most Wanted list and later faces prison. Penny Ann Early and Diane Crump blaze trails in horse racing. Golda Meir becomes Israel’s prime minister. Indira Gandhi strengthens leadership amid upheaval. murkier shifts touch the UN, arts, and business.
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Yale
Princeton
FBI
Antarctica
National Council of Churches
Ruth Eisemann-Schier
Miami
Barbara Jane Mackle
Norman
Oklo
Penny Ann Early
Chicago
Barbara Jo Rubin
Miss Rubin
Florida
Tropical Park
Barbara Jo
Bahamas
Diane Crump
Hialeah
Levi Eshkol
Golda Meir
Israel
Milwaukee
Labor Party
Indira Gandhi
Meir
Britain
House of Commons
Unity
Mid-Ulster
Miss Devlin
Northern Ireland
United States
Canada
Angie Brooks
Liberia
United Nations General Assembly
Miss Brooks
Notable deaths and tributes in a tumultuous era
The obituary notes deaths of Thelma Ritter 63, Gladys Swarthout 64, Lt. Sharon Lane 26, Ailsa Mellon Bruce 66, Sonja Hente 57, Maureen Connolly Brinker 34, Judy Garland 47, and mentions Mickey Deans 36 who discovered her body. It references Garland’s legacy and her troubled life after The Wizard of Oz.
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Thelma Ritter
Gladys Swarthout
Sharon
Missy) Lane
Vietnam
Ailsa Mellon Bruce
Andrew Mellon
Sonja Hente
Maureen
Little Mo
Connolly Brinker
Judy Garland
Hollywood
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Pussycat League
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Wedel
Shirley Chisholm
Chisholm
Brooklyn
N.Y
Shirley Temple Black
California
Nixon
UN General Assembly
U.N. Social Committee
Virginia Knauer
Nancy Hanks
National Council On the Arts
Helen Bentley
Baltimore Sun
Federal Maritime Commission
Constance Cornell Stuart
New York
Bess Myerson
Consumer Affairs
John Lindsay
Richard M Nixon
Julie
David Eisenhower
Patricia
Tricia
Prince Charles
Wales
Jacqueline Susann
Valley of the Dolls
Kennedy
Mary Barelli Gallagher
Gallagher
Presi
Dent Kennedy
Hugh D. Auchineloss
Broadway
Beverly Sills
New York City Opera Company
Milan
la Scala
Janis Joplin
Joni Mitchell
Laura Nyro
Muriel Siebert
New York Stock Exchange
Park Avenue
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Aristotle Onassis
Mary Jo Kopechne
Sen Edward Kennedy
Washington
Chappaquiddick Island
Miss Kopechne
Mamie Eisenhower
Gen
Dwight David Eisenhower
The
Coretta King
Jacqueline Grennan
Paul J Wexler
Missouri
Webster College
Jacqueline
Webster
Yoko Ono
John Lennon
Rock of Gibraltar
Linda Eastman
Paul McCartney
Jackie Hyde
Arto Guthrie
Arto
Mass
Pamela T. Colin
Vogue Magazine
Lord Harlech
David Ormsby- Gore
Sarah Crichton-Stuart
England
Aga Khan
Chery LaPiere
Salvatore Bono
Sonny & Cher
Chastity
Sophia Loren
Carlo Ponti
Carlo Jr
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
John D Rockefeller IV
West Virginia
John
Joan Baez
David Harris
Gabriel Bart
Vanessa Redgrave
Franco Nero
Carlo Gabriel
National Science Foundation
Antarctic
Eileen R McSaveney
Terry Lee Tickhill
Kay Lindsay
Lois M Jones
Institute of Polar Studies
Omg State University
Muller-Schwartze
Utah
Jean Pearson
National Association of Science Writers
Theolore O Wedel
Alexandria, Va
Patricia Nixon
Thay QO
Whatcep Sybpor
Slider
Devlin Worthens Irena A
Mickey Deans
London
Emily
Throlore O. Wedel
Elyria
Loraim
Stainless Steel
Obertin
Rural Furniture Mart
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