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Ford Presidential Library for access to these materials. Digitized from Box 48 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library -·····"'·· .................. ______ _ ,:·Newsmakers· .. • -- ~ 1. µ.,,,.··· 1Jt.i1 .Miss Mary to Q~it Smokes-Filled ROoms ,. ~"i ~Ularly dislike 'chairperson.' It sounds so. inhu­ man,.~ .And "chairwoman" is out. too, said the "chairman," :Ji silver-haired, astute, genial, pipe-smoking tyc0on of the tobacco world who likes an occasional cigar also. And she 'undoubtedly is the only company director around who can hand-roll her own. After 15 years of presiding over the smoke-filled board room of Alfred Dunhill, Ltd., of London, the world famous tobacconists, Mary Dunhill is stepping down at the end of the year. "But I'll still be around. I'll keep my seat on the board and keep a hand in," said Miss Mary. as she is known throughout the indus­ try. At 70, she is tiring a bit of traveling about the world to visit 14 branch offices. She joined the firm, founded in 1907 by her father, Alfred Dunhill, as a clerk at the age of -)7, s1.1cceeded her brother as chairman in 1961 and now .:-Vill I?e~ucceeded by her nephew, Richard Dunhill . .4. ~ .~ .,.,..... .. \\· ;..~: fbilip A. Hart (D-Mich.) and hiS wife,. Jane, ad- ~ittel:t~ the television program Meet the PreSs that the :~~hey brought to Washington 16 years ago and ~· belief that liberalism could change the world have ·'gtVejt ~ay to discouragement bordering on· diSmay. But wh.en.Hart. 63, who is retirin_g next year when his third . term en<ls. was asked if he were satisfied with his record, ;hEtJ'eplied: "At the risk of sounding self-congratula.to­ ·'.l'J:tJ'~;I am. I look back with satisfaction," . ~Time ·magazine's yearend cover often goes to an itw· Mary Dunhill puffs cigar in front of world mop. ~dual. usually to a man, and is awarded to "the person or AP Wlrephoto "group.who has most significantly affected-for good or ill -.the course of the year's events." For 1975, 12 women .were honored by the weekly. They were First Lady-Betty comes into force. It is aimed at giving women-more than 'Ford, Connecticut Gov. Ella r. Grasso, Secretary Carla A. 50% of the popwation of 58 million-equality of job op. "Hilk ·of Housing and Urban Development, Rep. tsarbara' portunity, pay and work conditions with meh. The nation­ ~. JOnlan (D-Tex.), Chief Justic~ Susie s~·of the North al railroad is clQsing its "women only" waiting rooms. 'CaroJina S.upreme Court, President Jill Ker Conway of Businessmen can't advertise for a "Gid Friday," or a male • S'niith' College, Managing F.ditor Carol Suttoo·of the Louis­ secretary, or even a ''sm<ITT lad" to post the mail. Even ... Yille, .Ky.. Courier-Journal, Lt. Comdr. Kathleen Byerly, Queen Elizabeth II has been drawn into debate that has : ~Tennis iµr Billie Jean Kine, author Susan Brownmiller, filled the newspapers. Can she ~ legally referred to as women's affairs director Addie Wyatt of the Amalgam~t­ •:queen?" Should she not, rather, be addressed as "throne­ :-.ed){eat .Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union and ,All· person ?"The overseeing bOdy to enforce the new law­ r:.On Cheek, assistant priest of the Episcopalian Churc}J. of the F.qual OppOrt.unities Commission-is headed by two ~-~:~~~n and the Incarnation in.Washington. ' women. They are Betty LockwoOcl and Lady Howe and their first problem may well be to ~nsider renaming the ......Emmeline Pankhurst and her daiJghters must be city in which their headquarters will be located. Instead -smiling somewhere out there. The feminist movement of Manchester, one critic has suggested, bow about Per­ they founded at the end of the last century will reach a sonchester? peak in Britain today, when an antisex discrimination law -By JenninP, Panott ~·! --------------------------­ t Doien Wh.o adea ~11erence BETTY FORD: The Most Since Eleanor retary of state, then a U.S. Congresswoman and in 1974, by a .. I'm the only First Lady to ever have a march organized landslide. the first woman Governor who did not have a hus­ gainst her," boasted Betty Ford, 57, after a chorus of black- band in office before her. ·la women in front of the White House chanted their disap- Like most Governors, Grasso, 56, has had a rough year. Wom­ rroval of her enthusiastic lobbying for the Equal Rights Amend- en's groups have assailed her anti-abortion stand (says she: ''Bella ment. Last year Betty became the most controversial-and calls me up and screams at me over the phone"). Most impor­ popular-First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, speaking out on a tant, her longtime allies in labor and the Democratic legislature \ ariety of once delicate topics. Abortion: "I feel it is the right of rejected her demands for cutbacks in social spending and an in­ a human being to make her own decisions." Marijuana: "It's the crease in the work week for state employees (from 35 to 40 pe of thing that young people have to experience." The pros- ~hours) to narrow a big budget deficit. Grasso has responded by or­ p..:ct ofa premarital affair for her teen-age daughter: "I wouldn't dering layoffs of up to 6,000 state workers. 'Tm still classically be surprised ... But I'd want to know pretty much about the compassionate," she says, "but what am I supposed to do? Sell )OUng man." Her candor is deliberate. Says she: "You're very the state down the river to accommodate labor's wishes?" An- foolish if you try to beat around the bush-you just meet your- swering her own question, she says: "Women in office can be as self coming around the bush the other way." tough as anyone else." Her matter-of-fact attitude toward her mastectomy saved lives by bringing breast cancer out of the shadows into the light BARBARA JORDAN: Rising Representative of public ~liscussion and understanding. WE LOVE BETTY plac- After only three years in Congress, Barbara Jordan, 39, the ards sparkle in every crowd the Pres- sternly eloquent Democrat from Texas, ident draws. and audiences 'break into already commands more respect and applause at the mention of her name. power than many Representatives can look forward to in a lifetime. She serves CARLA HILLS: A Firm Hand at HUD on the House Judiciary Committee, Betty Ford's "pillow talk"-lobby- where she voiced one of the most c~ ing her husband to name a woman to gent and impassioned defenses of con- the Cabinet for the first time in 23 years stitutional principles that emerged from - was one reason that Carla Hills, 41, the Nixon impeachment hearings; she became Secretary of Housing and Ur- is also on the Government Operations ban Development last March. As soon Committee, as well as the Democratic as the former Assistant Attorney Gen- Steering Committee and the task force cral moved over to HUD, she began shak- that drafted a Democratic plan to re- ing up the bureaucracy with a speed and vive the economy last year. And she was decisiveness that dazzled staff aides long the forceful co-chairman at the recent used to a more lethargic pace. She found, Democratic Issues Convention in Lou- for instance, that a rent-subsidy pro- isville. In a recent Redbook survey, 700 gram for some 200,000 families had fall- Americans were asked to name five en so disastrously behind schedule that women whom they would like to see be- not a single family had been helped. come that still distant figure: the first I Within three months, she managed to woman candidate for President. Jordan, 1 arrange subsidies for more than 90,000 Top row from left: Alison Cheek, who was named by 44%, led the list. · families and then raised targets to 400,- Billie Jean King, Carla Hills, Daughter of a Baptist preacher in 000 more for this year. Compulsively ef- Jill Conway. Houston. Jordan earned a B.A. in polit- ficient, Hills has no patience for bureau- Middle row: Betty Ford, Susie Sharp. ical science from Texas Southern Uni- cratic bungling: "I don't just dislike that Barbara Jordan, Ella Grasso. versity and a Jaw degree from Boston sort of thing. I hate it!" Bottom row: Addie Wyatt, University in 1959. She then returned to Hills, whose father was a building- Susan Brownmiller, Carol Sutton, her parents' home and set up a law prac- supplies millionaire, spent her childhood Kathleen Byerly. · tice on the dining-room table. In 1966 attending private schools, horseback she won a seat in the Texas senate, be- riding, playing tennis (she was captain coming its first black member since Re- of the Stanford women's tennis team) and living in the Beverly construction and its first woman since 1882.