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Modern Women Ten Pottstown Mercury Modern Women Pottstown, Friday, February 28, 1969 Tiny female dynamo tackles United Nations mm UNITED NATIONS. NY. Small but mighty and busy, busy, busy are the words for Rita Hauser, new U.S. representative on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

She stands only 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs only 94 pounds. Yet she puts in 16 and 17-hour days and crowds enough action in them to nin down a 200-pound man. She practices law in Now York and Paris, runs a New York apartment and a Connecticut country house, looks after a corporation-executive husband and two children, entertains at home, goes out for music and theater, talks on the radio, serves on committees and reads three novels a week. I I LL RIGHTS Now, only 34. she is to speak for the United States on the 32- nation N.

body set up to spur mankind on to full rights and freedoms. For her first commission session in Geneva. Feb. 17-March 21. she boned up with 50 pounds of reading matter on human rights.

She has received hundreds of letters on the plight of Jews in Iraq, starvation in Biafra and similar matters since President Nixon appointed here Feb. 3. All this can.e out in an interview she gave in her law office on the 15th floor of a bank building a few blocks from U.N. headquarters. Pale, black-haired, smiling and bright in an orange turtleneck sweater and co-ordinated skirt, shp sat beind a Spanish desk, one of several family pieces around her.

and stated firm opinions in a chime-like voice in short sentences. AVID READER adore she said. usually read three or four novels a English and a bit of Spanish stuff that's good I like C.P. Snow. I read all his novels.

He's a highly literate person. I just finished. in the French. Malraux's like pretty clothes. My favorite designer is Anne Fogarty.

I often go over to her showroom. She's a friend of mine, and she makes lovely things for very little people because she's just about my size size been very greatly interested in human rights because I serve, among other on the committee for in- ternational law of the Bar Association of the City of New York. Human rights is a subject studied at Mrs. Hauser said the question of whether the United States should grant political refugee status to Jews who might be allowed to leave Iraq was being studied in the Nixon administration: been suggested and under She also said she hoped President Nixon soon would ask the Senate to ratify the convention on Genocide and other international human rights agreements that have been awaiting U.S. Husbands fare poorly in spouse evaluation NEW YORK (AP) One out of every four American wives would pick another husband if they were starting out again, according to a Gallup poll published in the March issue of Family Circle magazine.

Only one in every 10 husbands, however, says he would have proposed to another girl if he had known as much about his wife then as he does now. Why are women less satisfied with their mates than their husbands are? Mary Gibson, who reported on the survey for the magazine, asks in reply: wives ea- gerer to please; and do women work harder than men do to get a mate, to hold him, and to make him happy? Do women succeed at the cost of making their husbands more pleased with them than the wives are with their husbands? Or are husbands less aware of the human needs at home, too taken up with the outside demands of their careers, to live up to their wives' As a social partner, close companion and parent the man fared poorer than his mate in the representative sampling of the sexes. Women, too. were more critical of their devotion, personal appearance and mental growth. Socially, only 58 per cent of American husbands meet their expectations while 81 per cent of the men said their mates were well suited to their social needs.

Husbands, too, were more satisfied with their physical appearance. One went so far as to say his wife become even more beautiful over the Only six per cent thought their mates live up to expectations in looks. Twelve per cent of the wives found fault with how their men looked. has everything except commented an Arizona wife. Questioned about companionship.

86 per cent of the husbands said they were satisfied while only 69 per cent of the wives felt their mates shared their interests and attitudes. Wives were critical, too, of their mental growth. Only 14 per cent of the men complained that their wives had failed to improve their minds while 24 per cent of the women felt their husbands as bright and alert as they should be Nine out of 10 men felt their wives were good mothers but only two out of three women felt their husbands were fulfilling the father role. wish he would spend a little less time and energy on his work and more on understanding and helping our said an Illinois wife. Only one in five wives, though, complained about their husbands as wage earners.

It a good thing, too. because husbands, 2-1, want their wives to be wage earners and are disappointed if they are not. RITA HAUSER US representative to UN Commission on Human Rights. ratification for up to 20 years. buried in Mrs.

Hauser said. have no doubt that if they reached the floor of the Senate, they would be adopted. going to talk to the appropriate parties when I get back from Geneva. very concerned about it. I want this administration to do something about SUCCESS STORY Her becoming a diplomat was the latest episode in an unbroken success story stretching back to July 12, 1934, when she was born Rita Eleanore Adams in Brooklyn Heights.

Her father was a businessman and a Republican county committeeman. first in Brooklyn and then in Manhattan, where she grew up. She wrote speeches for Nixon in his unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign, headed his organization before his 1968 nomination and was cochairman of New Yorkers for Nixon-Agnew afterward. After his election, she worked at his Pierre Hotel headquarters to find good people for different and he finally gave her the human rights job. She has done well in career and private life, too.

They have a son, Glen, a daughter, Patricia, a Negro live-in maid from Kentucky named Virginia Chennault; a four-bedroom apartment in New York City, and a five-bedroom house in Washington, Conn. ARGENTINE VISITORS Luis Manso (left) and Viviana Fasce at Harding High School in St. Paul, enjoy some work at the blackboard. Amigo students find life in US is great Psychologist gives answers to 'Why teens NEW YORK (AP) Which of these statements about teen-age drinking is true? (a) Teen-age drinking is a way of rebelling against parents. Teen-agers are more likely than adults to have auto accidents when drunk.

(c) A teen's first drink is normally taken the MISCONCEPTIONS All are common misconceptions, the result of misinformation and emotional reasoning. Dr. Margaret Bacon, a clinical and research psychologist, and Mary Brush Jones, authors of the book say these and other old tales fill parents with anxieties that prevent a healthy and helpful attitude toward teen drinking. Research indicates that between 72 and 90 per cent of all 12 to 19-vear-olds have at least tasted alcoholic beverages. A considerable number continues to drink at least occasionally.

Figures for occasional drinkers vary from 86 per cent in suburban Nassau County, N.Y., to 44 per cent in rural Kansas. Percentages increase sharply for ages 14 through 16 years, then level off around 17 or 18 to a point slightly below the average for adults. NOT NEW Drinking among young people is not a new phenomenon nor is it increasing. The relative stability of the percetages reported over the past 15 years indicates there has been no appreciable rise in teen-age drinking. On the whole, teen-agers are a fairly temperate group.

Only 2 to 5 per cent of the drinkers coud be considered possible future problem drinkers. The large majority of teens drink infrequently, and for the most part they drink beer; wine is second and hard liquor last. Of all students interviewed only one to three per cent said they drank hard liquor as regularly as once a week but 8 to 13 per cent said they drink beer that often. All available evidence indicates that an overwhelming majority of teen-agers rarely drink while driving; the proportion of drinking-and-driving accidents is much greater among adults. While teenagers want to be of the this is not why they start to drink.

In fact, most reported the absence of any such social pressure. Young people, including those who drink regularly, claim they do not think poorly of non-drinkers, and whether or not one drinks is not a criterion of social success. Nor, for most part, is drinking a way of rebelling against parents. That first drink usually is taken out of curiosity, usually at home during holiday celebrations. Parents and relatives are their first drinking companies.

Most young people have their permission to drink under certain conditions. ADULT CUSTOM Sociologists claim that teenage drinking is a matter of participating in a widespread adult custom that implies sociability, maturity, and conviviality. Parents are the most important single influence as to whether or not a child will drink. Parents who drink regularly are more likely to raise children who also drink regularly and vice-versa. And not only a drinking patterns, but their attitudes toward liquor are imparted to their children.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Viviana Fasce is swinging on a snowmobile 10.000 miles from home. Luis Manso is having fun with the girls in Minnesota. He says more can happen in one night with a girl in St.

Paul than could happen in two months with a girl from his hometown of General Pico, Argentina. They think life in the United States is wonderful and want to tell their friends about it. Viviana and Luis, both 18. are among 22 high school students on a two-week visit to America to learn what they find out in textbooks. Their group is in Minnesota under the auspices of Operation Amigo, a private enterprise in Miami, that has brought more than 5.000 high school students from every Latin American country to some 25 states in the past eight years.

The idea was conceived by the Miami Herald in 1961. TRANSPORTATION PAID Major U.S. firms pay the transportation costs, with the 3M Company bringing this group to its headquarters in St. Paul, where record snow depths have accumulated this winter. Most of the Amigo students had never seen snow, and they looked forward to the new experience.

Their plane landed in St. Paul during a blizzard and the boys were in their first snowball fight before they got airport terminal building. By nightfall the group was out on a sleigh ride and later many of the Amigos were introduced to ice skates, tobogganing and snowmobiling. Viviana said driving a snowmobile was the thrill of her lifetime. Living with an American family as each Amigo does is Designer predicts no clothes look for Hollywood By VIVIAN BROWN AP Newsfeatures Writer Hollywood is getting ready to launch a no-clothes look in the movies, predicts fashion designer Jean Louis, who questions.

can you design He was asked to do it. But the talented designer of movie clothes, who has his own couture business, and designed the first see-through dress and body Marlene Dietrich, 17 years want any part of it. movie script was so vul gar and so unhealthy, I believe it, and they wanted me to do the clothes for the stars. It would have been almost a clothes look. would need lots of engineering, they told me, but I advised them to let the actors go nude and to hire instead of a dress designer, a great lighting UNDRESSED a widespread fallacy that the key to a sexy look is in how much of the human body is bared, says Louis.

His dress for Marlene Dietrich created a sensation because it was a conversation piece. The see-through idea was an illusion. Actually, Louis had designed a very tight ored body foundation over which she wore a transparent gown. It was sexy-looking without being immodest. Louis says.

topless look is a disgrace. Ridiculous. I know a nice woman who would wear it. It is all right for exhibitionists or for burlesque performers where nothing is supposed to be left to the he says. SUBTLE DRAPING Louis favors drapped fabrics MARLENE DIETRICH Singing star wears her famous see-through dress.

PANTS SUIT Sea green and white embossed Italian cotton flower print by Jean Louis. that reveal the body in a subtle way. For example, soft jersey fabric may reveal the movements and stimulate more intrigue than any topless dress one can wear. The observer ponders is rather than that all there is to Monroe was a sex symbol because she knew how to move her says Louis. was said about nudity, but it was her sensuous-appearing movements of hips and torso that made her a young girls have the wrong image of sex appeal, and scorn petticoats and brassieres because they want to be he says.

pretty screen stars will have no part of the new look. Gayle Hunnicutt is an exciting girl, but she is sensible enough to abhor the undressed look. Katharine Hepburn want it. Rosalind Russell and Shirley McLaine like Louis has designed clothes for their recent movies, and he did the look for Modern Louis suggests men dress in a way that will discourage women from wearing nude fashions. He has designed a line of suits because go with topless The suits of bronze, gray, green, brown are completely revolutionary, he says, and will give men dignity as well as style.

They will be sold readyt-to-wear. His new line for women emphasizes billowy with molded bodices. One lace and cotton dress has shorts trimmed with lace. Even his pants suit, a bright green print on white, looked thoroughly feminine. like a dream for Luis.

He says it is the most interesting thing he has done. meals are so Luis says. are so punctual for eating, whereas we usually eat when everyone in the family gets there. Lunch is our biggest meal of the day usually two courses on separate plates. And used to eating supper about 8 FREEDOMS STARTLING The freedoms American girls enjoy startled Viviana, who is accustomed to wearing a uniform to school, and think of going out alone with a boy at night unless they were nearly engaged.

Her view is shared by Luis, a good-looking small-town boy, who has found Minnesota girls to be much more forward than girls in Argentina. In addition to attending classes at Harding high school in St. Paul the Argentine students have been visiting points of interest in the area to obtain a glimpse of city government, the state legislature in action, industrial activity, small town life and agricultural production. MINORITY PROBLEMS All are interested in minority problems and an opportunity has been arranged through the high school to discuss these issues. During their stay, the Amigo students also are explaining to their American friends the way of life in Argentina.

They stress the progressive and industrial nature of their country, pointing out massive public works projects now underway and how manufacturing has grown in the past few years. When they return home all of the Amigo students, who were selected on the basis of leadership and scholastic abilities, will report to their friends in their various schools and communities what they found life to be like in the United States of America. Agency assists blind to become self supporting A great many blind men and women have become not only self supporting, but able to support other people, says Bob Goodpasture, of the National Industries for the Blind. like to think that we have been pioneers in an anti-poverty he said. The National Industries for the Blind (NIB) has come a long way since 1938 when a federal law was enacted requiring government departments to purchase products of the blind.

It put the sightless, near-blind and other handicapped in business. NIB was founded as a coordinating body to allocate orders equally to workshops and to assist blind workers in rounding up additional business. The products were brooms and mops in those early days, but we have branched out to include everything from bayonet scabbards to ballpoint pens in our 78 Goodpasture explained. An entire line, 70 blind-made products, are on racks in 1300 supermarkets, complete with the blind label Skilcraft and bumble bee motif. Our goal is to get enough business to provide employment for every blind person who wants to work, perhaps another 25,00 said Goodpasture.

Many of those employed are multi handicapped-heart, mental retardation, and so BELTED COSTUM E-Rose and white embossed Italian cotton flower print made into A line by Jean Louis. FOR DANCING Jean Louis designed this full-skirted, long-sleeved dress in navy silk organza with embroidered white polka dots and wide white border and cuffs.