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"Remember the Ladies" Exhibit (3)" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford
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THE NEW YORK TIMES Food Day WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1976
42
M
family/style
Mrs. Ford Helps Remember the
Ladies' of Revolutionary Era
By JUDY KLEMESRUD
Special to The New York Times
PLYMOUTH, Mass., June
Alison Buckhoitz, which said
'A Dull Life'
National Director
29-Three of Washington's
in part, "Why can't women
In includes a number of
Noticeably missing from
most: prominent political
be equal? Men are. Why can't
portraits of the period's out-
the exhibition was Martha
wives-Betty Ford, Nancy
women? Men say-women can't
standing women, including
Abigail Adams, Martha Wash-
Washington's bathing suit,
Kissinger and Joan Kennedy
be equal. That's not fair to
ington, and Mercy Otis War-
which had been mentioned
--gathered on the steps of
girls and women I'm going
ren There are hall gowns
among. the items. in earlier
A2
F
First L .ady presides at the
Ladie s' exhibit opening
By MARY NELL NAUGHTON
Girl Scout Council presented Mrs. Ford
essay contest, Wayne Carlin and Kim
South Carolina, Alison / Buckholtz.
PLYMOUTH-America's First Lady,
with an apple-head doll as she entered
Freyermuth. Fiona Brandon, daughter
"Why can't women be equal," Alison
Mrs. Betty Ford, officiated here
the club on the waterfront. Each of the
of the director of the exhibit, presented
wrote to Mr. Ford and went on to tell
Tuesday at the formal ceremonies
other honored guests received a corn
the First Lady with a colonial nosegay.
him that she intended to write to the
opening the national art exhibition.
husk doll.
governor to see if he could change the
Old
Colony Memorial
Serving
/ Plymouth, Carver, Kingston and Duxbury, Massachusetts
Vol. No. CLIV 42 Pag
es in 4 Sections Plus Supplements Thursday, July 1, 1976 Whole Number 7998 25 cents
Local radio dealers
Wite house
Gerald
R. Ford
Washington DC.
1827 Gippy Lane
chas Sc. 29407
Charlston, South Carolina
June 23,
Dear Prezedent Ford,
why can't woman be
equal.? Men are. why
can't woman? There Shuld
be a law that all
People Shuld be equal.
W Men say woman can't
be equal. that's not faiR
to Girls and woman.
I'm Going to write to
the Govenen so he RATO R. FORD HORREY
Can Change the law
Love Alison Buckholf
to 22 AGe 6 in a half
10.
Remember The Radies
1750 WOMEN IN AMERICA 1815
Mrs. Ford accepts floral bouquet from Fiona Bran-
don. Behind Near Mrs. Ford are Henry Atkins, pres
don, age six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bran-
dent of the Pilgrim Society, and Mrs. Brandon.
Photo by Mike Robinson
Mrs. Ford accepts floral bouquet from Fiona Bran-
don. Behind Near Mrs. Ford are Henry Atkins, presi-
don, age six, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bran-
dent of the Pilgrim Society, and Mrs. Brandon.
Remember the Radies
1750 WOMEN IN AMERICA 1815
Exhibit took months to prepare
PLYMOUTH-Months of prepara-
Angelo Brigida and notified personnel
and Director Mabel Brandon and
luncheon guests, who included other
tions culminated here, Tuesday, with
inside the club as well. The occupants of
Curator Conover Hunt walked through
donors, sponsors and dignitaries toured
the opening of the national art exhibi-
the boat agreed to leave before Brigida
the displays. Mrs. Ford presented
the exhibit.
tion, "Remember The Ladies,' in
arrived on the scene.
awards to PCHS students Wayne Carlin
An evening reception was held to ac-
Pilgrim Hall. The show, containing
At Pilgrim Hall
and Kim Freyermuth, winners of the
comodate more than 700 additional
more than 200 individual items, por-
essay contest staged for the opening.
friends, supporters and patrons of the
traits, books, manuscripts, letters and
A select group of reporters and
She spoke briefly to the crowd of about
exhibition. "Remember the Ladies"
household objects, was assembled
photographers were admitted to the ex-
750 assembled outside.
opened for the public yesterday and will
under the direction of Mrs. Mabel Bran-
hibition and followed Mrs. Ford as she
Following Mrs. Ford's departure, the
remain in Plymouth until September.
don of Plymouth and Washington. The
total budget for the unique presentation
was approximately $550,000.
Local police, a private security firm
and the Secret Service were all in-
volved in the preparations for the ar-
rival of First Lady Betty Ford, who of-
ficiated at the opening ceremonies. A
twenty-four-hour-a-day patrol has been
maintained at Pilgrim Hall since the
arrival of the priceless art objects and
museum pieces here last week. The
security will be maintained for the
duration of the show in Plymouth.
Anita Franks, executive secretary
for the show told the OCM yesterday
that the staff and the members of the
Antiquarian Society were indebted to
Acting Plymouth Police, Chief Ernest
Leonardi, and Sgt. Louis Cappella for
their
A6
Thursday, July 1, 1976
OLD COLONY MEMORIAL
Mrs. Ford in a gay moment during her private review of the exhibi-
tion.
Mrs. Ford quips and
praises on own tour
By MARY NELL NAUGHTON
ing the price of some of the corsetry,
PLYMOUTH- First Lady Betty
she exclaimed, 'Oh! heavens! Eight
Ford was given the premiere showing
dollars for one stay!'
of the national exhibition, "Remember
A wedding gown which had been
The Ladies," which she officially
found in a drawer of Plymouth's Anti-
opened here Tuesday. Both Curator
quarian House and is part of the ex-
Conover Hunt and Director Mabel
hibit, attracted Mrs. Ford's eye. She
Brandon accompanied Mrs. Ford
told the small entourage touring the
through the exhibit, describing various
show with her that when the Ford's
of
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of
UP - - 105
BETTY)
PLYMOUTH, MASS. (UPI) -- FIRST LADY BETTY FORD MADE A
NO N POLITICAL VISIT TO THIS HISTORIC COLONIAL TOWN TUESDAY TO JOIN
SEVERAL OTHER LEADING AMERICAN WOMEN IN DEDICATING A BICENTENNIAL ART
EXHIBIT.
MRS. FORD WAS GREETED BY SOME 1,000 WOMEN WHOSE CHEERS DROWNED OUT
CHANTS OF A SMALL GROUP OF PLACARD -TOTING DEMONSTRATORS PROTESTING
HER ENDORSEMENT OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT.
JOINING MRS. FORD IN THE CEREMONIES TO OPEN THE EXHIBIT CALLED
"REMEMBER THE LADIES- WOMEN IN AMERICA 1750-1315," WERE JOAN KENNEDY,
NANCY KISSINGER, REP. MARGARET HECKLER, R -MASS., AND MASSACHUSETTS
FIRST LADY KITTY DUKAKIS.
ALTHOUGH RAIN DAMPENED THE MORNING, THE SUN HAD POPPED OUT WHEN
MRS. FORD, UNDER HEAVY SECRET SERVICE ESCORT, ARRIVED AT THE PLYMOUTH
YACHT CLUB SHORTLY BEFORE 12:30 P .M. FOR A BRIEF LUNCHEON WITH THE
OTHER GUESTS.
THE TITLE OF THE EXHIBITION, SPONSORED BY CLAIROL AND PHILIP
MORRIS, INC., WITH FUNDING FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS FOR THE ARTS
AND HUMANITIES, WAS BASED ON A REQUEST ABIGAIL ADAMS ONCE MADE OF HER
HUSBAND, JOHN ADAMS.
IN FORMULATING THE LAWS OF THE NEW AMERICAN NATION IN 1776, MRS.
ADAMS WROTE, "I DESIRE YOU REMEMBER THE LADIES AND BE MORE GENEROUS
AND FAVORABLE TO THEM THAN YOUR ANCESTORS."
UPI 06-29 04:37 PED
The New York Times/Arthur Grace
AT OPENING OF BICENTENNIAL EXHIBIT: Betty Ford
with some of the women who gathered in Plymouth,
I
Era women. From left: Kitty Dukakis, wife of Governor
of Massachusetts, Joan Kennedy, Mrs. Ford, Represent-
Mass., yesterday for an exhibit about Revolutionary War
ative Margaret Heckler and Nancy Kissinger. Page 42.
N.Y. Times 6/30/76
A2
The Washington Star
Wednesday, June 30, 1976
Names/Faces
I
Plymouth Rock Hen Party
Boo of the Week came at Plymouth, Mass., yester-
day. and goes, depending on your point of view, to ei-
ther First Lady Betty Ford or the handful of anti-
Newsmakers
L.A.Tinies 6/30/76
Old Men-and Women-Need Love Too
-Nannie Gurley isn't worried about the 21-year differ-
ence between her age and her husband's. "I always did
like older men," she said. And she didn't even mind that
Amsey Sheffield didn't have a ladder for their elopment.
We were in love," she said, admiring her marriage
license. "We didn't know they were in love," said Sally
Maloney, social services director at the Highland House
Nursing Home in Columbus, Ga. "All the ladies call Mr.
Sheffield 'Honey' and 'Sugar.' We thought he was playing
the field." Sheffield, 94, said he was looking forward to
setting up housekeeping with Mrs. Gurley, 73, a widow in
her home in Columbus. "The doctor didn't want me to
stay alone," she said. "Now I've got someone to be with
24 hours a day." Sheffield began the wedding night
N071
RW
FIRST LADY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- FIRST LADY BETT FORD WISHED GOOD LUCK TODAY TO
WASHINGTON BALLERINA SANDRA FORTUNE, WHO WILL PARTICIPATE NEXT MONTH
IN INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION IN VARNA, BULGARIA.
MRS. FORD MET THE 25-YEAR-OLD MEMBER OF THE CAPITAL BALLET CO. AT
THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRESENTED HER A LETTER IN WHICH SHE AND PRESIDENT
FORD OFFERED THEIR WISHES FOR SUCCESS.
''YOU WILL INDEED BEAUTIFULLY REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES AND THE
VITALITY OF THE ARTS IN OUR NATION,' THE LETTER SAID.
MRS. FORD LATER FLEW TO PLYMOUTH, MASS., TO PARTICIPATE IN A
BICENTENNIAL SALUTE TO WOMEN WHO PLAYED A ROLE IN THE FOUNDING OF THE
NATION.
AFTER THE PLYMOUTH EVENT, THE FIRST LADY PLANNED TO VISIT HER SON,
MICHAEL AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GAYLE IN ESSEX, MASS., RETURNING TO
WASHINGTON THURSDAY.
06-29-76 13:35EDT
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- FIRST LADY BETTY FORD CONGRATULATED SANDRA
FORTUNE TODAY ON THE WASHINGTON BALLERINA 'S SELECTION AS AN AMERICAN
ENTRANT IN THE BIANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION IN VARNA,
BULGARIA, NEXT MONTH.
MRS. FORD, A FORMER DANCER, MET MISS FORTUNE AI THE WHITE HOUSE
AND BUT WORTHWHILE" COMPETITION. THE LETTER ALSO RELAYED PRESIDENT FORD
PRESENTED HER WITH A LETTER WISHING HER SUCCESS IN THE "DIFFICULT 'S
BEST WISHES.
MRS. FORD THEN LEFT FOR PLYMOUTH, MASS., TO ATTEND A BICENTENNIAL
"REMEMBER THE LADIES" EVENT. AIDES SAID SHE WILL RETURN JULY 1 AFTER
SPENDING SOME DAYS WITH HER SON MIKE, A THEOLOGY STUDENT, AND HIS
WIFE, IN BOSTON.
PLYMOUTH, MASS. (UPI) -- MRS. BETTY FORD HAS PAID SPECIAL TRIBUTE
TO THE "FOUNDING MOTHERS" OF AMERICA IN A VISIT TO PLYMOUTH, THE
HISTORIC OCEANSIDE TOWN WHERE THE PILGRIMS LANDED IN 1620.
JOINING MRS. FORD WERE MASSACHUSETTS FIRST LADY KATHERINE "KITTY"
DUKAKIS, MRS. JOAN KENNEDY, MRS. NANCY KISSINGER AND U.S. REP.
MARGARET HECKLER, R -MASS.
THE FIRST LADY 'S VISIT TUESDAY WAS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE OPENING
OF A BICENTENNIAL ART EXHIBIT: REMEMBER THE LADIES -- WOMEN IN
AMERICA 1750-1815."
"WE ARE HERE IN PLYMOUTH WHERE THE PILGRIMS LANDED; WE ARE HERE TO
HONOR THE UNS UNG WOMEN WHO HELPED WIN OUR INDEPENDENCE, MRS. FORD
SAID IN REMARKS AT DEDICATION CEREMONIES FOR THE EXHIBIT.
THE EXHIBIT IS COMMERCIALLY SPONSORED WITH FUNDING FROM THE
NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS FOR THE ARIS AND HUMANITIES.
K B
BETTY)
THE PREVIEW AND CEREMONIAL LUNCHEON FOR A BICENTENNIAL ART EXHIBITION JUNE AT 29
PLYMOUTH, MASS. (UPI) -- MRS. FORD WILL BE THE GUEST AT A
PLYMOUTH YACHT CLUB.
MARGARET KITTY DUKAKIS, WIFE OF MASSACHUSETTTS GOV. MICHAEL DUKAKIS,
JOINING THE FIRST LADY WILL BE JOAN KENNEDY, NANCY KISSINGER,
THE HECKLER, R -MASS., AND NEW YORK LT. GOV. MARY ANN REP.
THE COUNTRY 'S REVOLUTIONARY ERA.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS THE ROLE OF THE FOUNDING MOTHERS KRUPSAK. DURING
HUMANITIES. INC., FUNDING FROM THE NATIONNAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND
THE WITH EXHIBITION IS JOINTLY SPONSORED BY CLAIROL AND PHILLIP MORRIS,
UPI 06-22 03:14 PED
UP - 117 P
R B
CORRESPONDENTS :
MEDIA REPRENTATIVES WISHING TO COVER BETTY FORD 'S
APPEARANCE AT A BICENTENNIAL ART EXHIBIT IN PLYMOUTH, MASS., NEXT
TUESDAY, MUST SUBMIT CREDENTIAL REQUESTS TO CAROL SORELL AT RUDER AND
FINN FINE ARTS BY 5 P.M. FRIDAY. CALL: (212) 593-6333, (212)
593-6433, (212) 593-5473. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS REQUIRED :
NAME, AFFILIATION, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR PASSPORT NUMBER, DATE
AND PLACE OF BIRTH, BUSINESS AND HOME PHONE NUMBERS. THE REQUEST MAY
BE PHONED IN BETWEEN 9:30A .M. AND 5:30P.M. THROUGH FRIDAY.
CREDENTIALS MUST BE PICKED UP IN PERSON BETWEEN 10 A .M. AND NOON NEXT
TUESDAY AT THE LIBRARY AT PILGRIM HALL IN PLYMOUTH.
UPI 06-22 05:28 PED
UP - 297
R B
CORRESPO NDENTS:
NEXT WEEK AT THE WHITE HOUSE : PRESIDENT FORD RETURNS TO
WASHINGTON FROM PUERTO RICO LATE MONDAY EVENING, AND PLUNGES ALMOST
IMMEDIATELY INTO A ROUND OF BICENTENNIAL ACTIVITIES THAT WILL KEEP
HIM HOPPING FOR THE BETTER PART OF A WEEK. HIS SCHEDULE LISTS AN EVEN
DOZEN EVENTS BETWEEN THURSDAY AND THE FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY THAT ART
CONNECTED WITH THE OBSERVANCE OF THE NATION'S 23TH BIRTHDAY
ANNIVERSARY.
IN BETWEEN FORD 'S RETURN FROM THE SAN JUAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT AND HIS
ROUND OF RICE TENNIAL ACTIVITIES BUSINNING THURSDAY, THE CHIEF
EXECUTIVE WILL MEST VITH JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER TAKEO MIKI, PROBABLY
VETO A BILL HE VIIDED BEFORE, AND LIKELY WILL FIND TIME TO DISCUSS
HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN WITH TOP POLITICAL AIDES.
THE BILL THAT FORD IS EXPECTED TO KICK BACK TO CONGRESS IS THE
PUBLIC WORKS -JOBS DILL THAT HE VETOED IN DIFFERENT FORM LAST
FESRUARY. A JOBS REPORT, THE ONTHLY LABOR DEPARTMENT SURVEY OF THE
NATION 3 EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED, IS TO DE ISSUED AT THE END OF NEXT
WEEK AND PROBABLY WILL BRING COMMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. ANOTHER
REPORT RELATING TO THE ECONOMY OF BOTH THE NATION AND THE WORLD IS TO
BE ISSUED IN SAN JUAN THIS MONDAY AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE ECONOMUC
SUMMIT. IT IS REPORTED THAT FORD MAY HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE IN SAN
JUAN AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MESTERN WORLD CONFERENCE.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE BICENTERMIAL, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE 'S
SCHEDULE CALLS FOR TWO MAJOR EVENTS ON THURSDAY: THE MORNING
DEDICATION OF THE NEW SMITHSONIAN AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, AND THE NOON
OPENING OF THE CENTENNIAL SAFE AT THE CAPITOL. THE NEXT DAY THE
PRESIDENT GOES TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOR A CEREMONY PLACING THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND SIMILAR NATIONAL TREASURES ON
CONTINUOUS PUBLIC DISPLAY OVER A THREE DAY PERIOD. THEN ON SATURDAY,
JULY 3, HE WILL HEAD UP CUESTS ATTENDING AN "HO NOR AMERICA" CEREMONY
AI THE KENNEDY CENTER WHICH IS TO FEATURE MANY OF THE NATION'S
OUTSTANDING STAGE, SCREEN AND IV ENTERTAINERS.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FOLLOWING WEEK, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE STILL
WILL DE GOING STRONG ON THE DICENTERNIAL, ATTENDING JULY 4 CHURCH
SERVICES HERE, VISITING VALLEY FORGE, PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK ; AND
THEN PACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO WATCH THE MONUMENT GROUNDS FIREWORKS
AND THE LANDING OF THE VIKING SPACECRAFT ON MARS. OTHER BICENTENNIAL
EVENTS TO FOLLOW INCLUDE A MATURALIZATION CEREMONY AT MONTICELLO AND
GREETINGS TO ENGLAND 'S QUEEN WHO WILL BEGIN HER AMERICAN BIRTHDAY
VISIT WEEK AFTER NEXT.
ANOTHER ROYAL COUPLE WILL VISIT THE FORDS NEXT WEEK -- NORWAY'S
CROWN PRINCE HAROLD AND PRINCESS SONJA WHO WILL CALL AT THE WHITE
HOUSE ON FRIDAY.
PETTY HAS ONE EVENT ON HER SCHEDULE NEXT WEEK PRECEEDING THE
PROGRAM OF SICENTENNIAL EVENTS THAT SHE WILL ATTEND WITH THE
PRESIDENT. ON TUESDAY THE FIRST LADY FLIES IO PLYMOUTH, MASS., TO
ATTEND CEREMONIES COMMENORATING THE LANDING OF THE NATION'S
FOREFATHERS 01 THAT CITY'S FAMOUS ROCK.
UPI 06-25 13:33 PED
First lady to arrive Tuesday for
'Remember the Ladies' opening
By MARY NELL NAUGHTON
have been at work, throughout the
Hall, scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The ex-
through the efforts of Mrs. Henry Bran-
PLYMOUTH- The First Lady, Betty
winter and spring, on a variety of com-
hibit will be open to the public on
don, Manters Point and a large commit-
Ford, will officiate at ribbon-cutting
mittees and are in charge of the lun-
Wednesday, June 30.
tee of celebrities and local individuals.
ceremonies here on Tuesday opening
cheon.
"Remember The Ladies" is a collec-
In Plymouth the fund-raising commit-
Old Colony Memorial
Serving Plymouth, Carver, Kingston and Duxbury, Massachusetts
Vol. No. CLIV 42 Pages in 4 Sections Plus Supplement Thursday, June 24, 1976 Whole Number 7997 25 cents
Carver approves school plans
Mrs. Ford Helps 'Remember th
By JUDY KLEMESRUD
tion," Mrs. Ford said, shortly
courage to seek equal rights
Alison Buckholtz, which said
Special to The New York Times
before cutting a white ribbon
for women today."
in part, "Why can't women
PLYMOUTH, Mass., June
marking the opening of the
The hecklers carried signs
be equal? Men are. Why can't
29-Three of Washington's
exhibition, "and to focus at-
reading "Stop ERA" and
women? Men say women can't
most prominent political
tion on the unfinished busi-
"Equal Rights Amendment
be equal. That's not fair to
wives-Betty Ford, Nancy
ness of our revolution for
Stamps Out the Family," and
girls and women. I'm going
Kissinger and Joan Kennedy
full freedom and justice for
they occasionally chanted,
to write to the Governor so
-gathered on the steps of
women."
"Go away, ERA." Advocates
he can change the law."
Pilgrim Hall here today for
Mrs. Ford, who was dressed
of the amendment countered
The exhibition, housed on
the opening of a major Bi-
in a white knit dress by
by chanting "ERA, all the
two floors of Pilgrim Hall
centennia] exhibition about
Gloria-Sachs, drew mild boos
way."
and in the nearby Antiquari-
Revolutionary War era wo-
from a small group of anti-
Protesters Chant
ERA demonstrators in the
an House, consists of 213 ob-
men, called "Remember the
The protesters broke into
Ladies."
crowd of about 1,000 persons
jects dealing with American
gathered in front of the hall,
the chant again after Mrs.
women-rich and poor, black,
"We're here to honor the
when she said, "This exhibit
Ford finished reading a letter
white and Indian-and their
unsung women who helped
about neglected Americans
to President Ford from a 61/2-
to win our national revolu-
should give us strength and
year-old South Carolina girl,
lives in the period between
1750 and 1815.
Why did the planners stop
at 1815 rather tha going up
to the present?
"Because we wanted to
show what revolutionary era
women were like," said Linda
Grant Depauw, the exhibi-
tion's historian. "It was a
time when all women were
working in the same occupa-
tions as men, and had equal
pay and far more legal free-
dom and political rights than
our own time. They were
more liberated than at any
time since."
This all changed when the
Industrial Revolution came
along," she said. "The afflu-
ence that occurred turned
them into dependent women,"
she said.
The exhibition will be at
Plymouth, the landing place
of the Pilgrims, through Sept.
26, and then will move out to
Atlanta, Washington, Chicago,
Austin, Tex., and New York
where it will end on June 15,
1977.
'A Dull Life'
In includes a number of
portraits of the period's out-
standing women, including
Abigail Adams, Martha Wash-
ington, and Mercy Otis War-
ren. There are ball gowns
and a maternity dress, as
well as a 17th-century sex
manual published in Philadel-
phia, a wig curler, an 18th-
century Hanuukah lamp,
Christnia Gatler's testimony
of rape by British soldiers
during the Revolutionary
War and an exhibit of cloth-
ing worn by the war's camp
followers.
Near Martha Washington's
portrait is a portion of a let-
ter she wrote while First
The New York Times/Arthur Grace
Lady to a cousin in Virginia,
Betty Ford pauses at a display of an 18th-century
which says, in part: "I live
a very dull life here and
corset at "Remember the Ladies" exhibition in Plymouth,
know nothing that passes in
the town-I never go to any-
publick place-indeed Ithink
Mass. "I'm just grateful I didn't have to live in
I am more like a state pris-
oner than anything else
that day," she said. "I would never be able to get ready."
The display of a woman
being trussed into one of the
2 D.Y.Time/30/76
e
Ladies' of Revolutionary Era
tight corsets of the period
sherbert in the Plymouth of John and Abigail Adams.
especially appealed to her
caused Mrs. Ford to laugh
Yacht Club.
Mrs. Kennedy, who was
was "how the ordinary wom-sub
during her tour of the exhibi-
Another executive, David
wearing a white sheath
en lived in those days."
tion this afternoon.
Mahoney, chief executive of-
dress with a red and blue
Among the other promin-
"I'm just grateful I didn't
ficer of Norton Simon, re-
stripe running around it, and
ent guests at the festivities
have to live in that day,"
fused to join the head table,
Mrs. Kissinger, who was
were representative Margaret
she said. "I would never be
where he was supposed to
wearing a white dress with
Heckler of Massachusetts, 5.22
able to get ready."
sit by Mrs. Kissinger, after
navy polka dots, were said
Elly Peterson and Liz Car-
At a nearby statue of Molly
he was late for the grand
to have ben extremely valu-
penter, co-chairmen of E. R.
Pitcher, Mrs. Ford was told
entrance and was then forc-
able in raising money for
America, and Kitty Dukakis,
by Conover Hunt, the exhibi-
ibly stopped by Secret Serv-
the exhibition.
wife of the Massachusetts
leport on Page 31
TELEPHONE 426-3000
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1976
44
Betty Ford comes to Plymouth
Whi
to help U.S. 'Remember the Ladies'
to
Mayor Kevin H. Whit
state and federal officials ]
ly divided city back toget
"I understand and I
city with compulsory bus
black or white, enjoys see
mote neighborhoods."
It was White's first m
in two years, a state-wide
He outlined an eight-point
mendations recently submitte
Violence, to upgrade job oppor
a high student dropout rate.
Included in the program is
of expanding the size of the Sch
control of the schools out of th
cluding ending federal receiver
School.
He will demand area col
stantial numbers" of scholarsh
graduates and request busine
prentice programs for the city
"To deal with violence, w
pansion of police personnel," h
'We need jobs and educatio
which takes money from Bost
pours it into Texas or Califori
"We want no more lecture
We know them too well," he
(Continued on Pa
Phase 2
says school
politics ha
By ALAN EI
Boston students are crippl
competent and disorganized
tion, burdened with political p
red-tape, a spokesman for th
volved in Phase 2 said yester
Robert J. Lamphere, vice
Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
hasn't even scratched the S
students for the world of wo
PILGRIM GIRL-Alexandra Wentworth, 11, of Plymouth kisses First Lady Betty Ford.
As chairman of the Tri-l
Staff Photo by Kevin Cole
Education, Inc., Lamphere he
firms and three consortia paire
'We have unfinished business'
under Phase 2.
In an exclusive interview
can, Lamphere made these 0
By BONNIE SELWAY
faced Secret Service men a little after noon, was
greeted warmly by a crowd of 1000 and stopped to talk
The school system lac}
First Lady Betty Ford opened a Bicentennial wom-
to a Girl Scout troop which presented her a hand-
and competent top-level per
en's art exhibit, "Remember the Ladies," in Plymouth
made doll.
really happen." After a year
yesterday and called for equal rights for women.
ministration of Supt. Marion
She had lunch at the Plymouth Yacht Club and
munity finds itself without :
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The Washington Star
Friday, July 16, 1976
Names/Faces
News of the Widow Truman
Bess Truman, widow of President Harry S. Truman,
has been hospitalized in Kansas City for treatment of
arthritis. She is 91. She is said to be in good condition.
Since the death of her hus-
Tropicana stockholders. The devil's in there some-
place.
Strange
In Plymouth, Mass., the Board of Selectmen has
finally come up with the $75 to pay for a gift it present-
ed to Betty Ford during her Bicentennial visit in June.
The town finance committee had refused to transfer
Past 7/1/76
Actress Elizabeth Taylor dances with a member of the Strolling Trou-
badors, Leslie Hurley, at the Lincoln Memorial.
Personalities
Elizabeth Taylor was back in town
After she spoke, some women in the
yesterday, this time with Iranian Am-
audience began chanting "Go away,
bassador Ardeshir Zahedi nowhere in
ERA." About a dozen protestors car-
sight.
ried placards lettered "Stop ERA."
(R-III.).
mence. emailed was the only umng
I regret. I realized after 14 months in
Betty Ford was booed by a group of
this country the value of money,
anti-feminist demonstrators in Plym-
whether it's clean or dirty."
outh, Mass., yesterday as she lobbied
for the passage of the Equal Rights
Heart Surgeon Dr. Michael De-
Amendment.
Bakey says an artificial heart will be
The First Lady had viewed at Pil-
available by the turn of the
grim Hall a Bicentennial exhibit
century. King Carl Gustav and his
called "Remember the Ladies" and
new Queen Silvia went through Lon-
said, "This exhibit about those forgot-
don customs with their fellow air-
ten ladies should give us the courage
plane passengers, declining VIP
to seek equal rights for the women to-
facilities.
day."
-Tom Zito