Tilting at Windmills

Tilting at Windmills During the National Women’s Conference in Houston, Bella Abzug was quoted as looking forward to the day when women have equality and “men will have to compete a little...

...Our favorite is the Lignite Subcommittee of the Fossil Energy Advisory Committee...
...The Carter Administration, having announced its intention to cut down on government advisory \committees, has proposed 27 such groups for the new Department of Energy...
...According to the Associated Press, the General Accounting Office will publish a report this month saying the Pentagon could save more than a billion dollars annually by using civilians in jobs now performed by members of the military...
...Newsletters are not the only way journalists and publishers have found to make an extra dollar...
...The AFL-CIO demonstrated its concern for the poor by lobbying hard for the increase...
...The emphasis is n9w on low tar and nicotine and rational choice (which is why we have brands with names like Fact, True, and Merit...
...Doesn’t it seem likely that it is the same old Navy psychology that gave us the giant carriers because big ships produce jobs for admirals...
...One example given in the AP story is waiters for the dining hall at the Air Force Academy...
...w t h one fourth of all our unemployment concentrated among teenagers and with 40 per cent of black teenagers out of work, employers need an incentive to hire young people...
...William Safire hqs had two triumphs as a journalist...
...Camel, Marlboro, Salem, Kool, Winston, Newport, and Virginia Slims seem to be the worst...
...They have been entering it in record numbers during the seventies, but the adversary system, with its emphasis on competition and winning, remains unchanged...
...But there are a few companies that continue to try to lure the young into taking up an addictive habit through advertising that makes smoking seem glamorous and attractive...
...Civilians in the area get $3 an hour for such work...
...It raises the minimum wage to $2.65 next year and to $3.35 by 1981...
...I didn’t want men to be feminine in the sense of dainty or petite...
...Now that blacks are standing up for their rights...
...Tilting at Windmills During the National Women’s Conference in Houston, Bella Abzug was quoted as looking forward to the day when women have equality and “men will have to compete a little harder...
...This reminded me of what has been my greatest disappointment with the women’s movement...
...It seems obvious that the best deterrent would be lots of small submarines that would be impossible for the Russians to keep track of...
...Of the two main reasons why government administrators tend to favor ever larger budgets for their departments, one is well known: a big budget makes its administrator look big...
...We need women’s love and laughter to recall us to humanity...
...Just my enemies...
...The Indian Claims Commission, founded in 1946, was allowed to receive claims only through 1951...
...The sponsor gets prominent speakers to participate without fee by assuring them that the audience will consist of important people...
...This means we are obligated to pay them generous pensions for 30 to 40 years thereafter...
...Instead of making men more feminine, it has made women more masculine...
...I support that right totally, including the right to perform in combat roles in the armed forces...
...What I had liked most about the unliberated woman was that, not having to compete with men, she could look on the male’s aggressions and career anxieties with sanity and good humor...
...The first was his story on the tragic death of thousands of Kurds as a result of Henry Kissinger’s desertion of them after he had encouraged them to rely on us...
...One might ask, why have waiters in the first place-it might be cheaper and psychologically healthier to have our future officers stand in line cafeteria-style...
...One of our favorites is “New Jersey Official Accused of Corruption...
...w s h i n g t o n is one of the great broken records of all time...
...He gets important people for the audience by assuring them that there will be prominent speakers...
...Beebe, the chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company, persuaded Mrs...
...The mean income of New Republic readers is $34,700, by the way...
...Graham in 1971 that the public stock offering should be made...
...No matter what the administration, the leaker is the enemy...
...Another is putting on two-day conferences and seminars on such subjects as “Coming Changes in Tax Policy” and charging businessmen $300 to $500 to attend...
...He promises to keep you “a step ahead of the trends-and of your cornpetitor~’~-anda, lthough he doesn’t say so, presumably of the readers of his newspaper column, too...
...Speaking of the Navy, the revelation that each Trident submarine is going to cost $1.2 billion instead of the $800 million we have been led to expect reminds us to ask again why we are building the monster Tridents -they are longer than the Washington Monument is tall, and cost so much that we can afford only 13 of them...
...Military personnel receive $5.80...
...Another appeared most recently in the November 3 edition of The Washington Star: “Probe of Teamsters Bogged DownKey Witnesses Refuse to Testify...
...And why on earth couldn’t women perform just as well as men as fighter pilots...
...the aliens have becomethe new slave class...
...Cigarette advertising has become less objectionable in recent years...
...The most recent example comes from the Navy, where someone gave some unclassified budget data to Aviation Week...
...There must be at least ten times that many...
...The old female values could have brought a badly needed shift toward more harmonious ways of resolving disputes that would emphasize mediation and bringing people together None of the foregoing should be construed to suggest that I am against women’s right to work...
...If you ever wondered why Katharine Graham made the mistake of going public with the stock of The Washington Post-which means that instead of being able to run the paper in the public interest, she is under a legal obligation to run it in the stockholders’ interest-Chalmers Roberts says in his new book, The Washington Post, The First Hundred Years, that the villain was Frederick (Fritz) Beebe...
...My favorite line comes when Michael Corleone says, “I don’t feel I have to kill everyone...
...Large numbers of women with those values in the military could be a great insurance policy against My Lais...
...Shouldn’t there be some special Dishonor Roll for the tobacco companies and advertising agencies responsible for such ads, and for the newspapers and magazines that publish them...
...Evans and Novak do the same thing...
...Charles Peters...
...We wonder how they sort out what to give to their $48 subscribers and what to give their newspaper readers...
...Instead of changing the system, she’s joining up...
...Why did the press make a big thing out of Lance while almost totally ignoring the Kurds...
...As we all know, the will to long life is strong in government agencies...
...Military personnel in such jobs retire after 20 years when they are as young as 37...
...I know a lot of women who are in much better physical condition than I was when the United States Infantry found me acceptable...
...The official estimate of the number of illegal aliens in the Washington area is 4,500...
...This is tragic because the very things we need the most these days are the feminine values of non-violence and peace...
...The second was the Bert Lance affair...
...If we had to try to teach bureaucratic psychology in one lesson, this would be it: Having been voted the government’s worst agency in a recent survey of congressmen, the Labor Department’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs reacted not with efforts to improve its overall performance, but by establishing special units in each of its offices to handle claims referred by members of Congress...
...So what does Congress do...
...The Secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor, immediately launched an investigation...
...I wanted them to become gentler, kinder, less macho...
...But again one yearns for the old female values...
...One profession I had especially hoped women would change is the law...
...If each of their budgets is big, for reason one, he will tend to go along for reason two...
...In any event, this report could be important if it concentrates on the tremendous waste in using military people for clerical work...
...Speaking of the rich reminds us of recent evidence that our old friends, the journalists and the liberals, must be doing well...
...The other is less well known but equally potent: each administrator wants the loyalty of all the administrators under him...
...Most of the busboys in area restaurants and practically all of the live-in domestic servants speak with a Latin accent...
...The Columbia Journalism Review carries an advertisement for diamond earrings at $1,100 and The New Republic has an ad from Tiffany’s for a $590 watch...
...Now she’s competing, and seems to be adopting the male’s worst traits...
...It is finally closing down next year-but it still has over 60 claims that the staff has managed to keep pending for at least 26 years . . . . The paranoia that pervades the upper levels of American life has never been captured better than in “The Godfather...
...Jack Anderson is offering his Washington Letter to those who can afford it, at $48 a year...
...There are headlines that could run any day...
...Terrified of being exposed and deported, they are quick to assume the humble demeanor the rich like to encourage among the lower orders...

Vol. 9 • January 1978 • No. 11


 
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