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Fightiru are bem By Ellen Goodm; Tttt Boston GMm BOSTON ? There's really r with it. There's not all that i between a face lift and a nose such a big leap to make fron that gray to scalpeling away The impulses are all improvement, I suppose, and i psychological lift cosmetically harm? Why, none at all. I Yet when I read about Betty it made me sigh. This woman 1 so much that she has become test for tne problems of women her age. She has spent so n struggling against internal issi is at war. I've seen her twice in the pat time was at the National Won in Houston, where it was nainfi slowed and slurred speech. Sh< well. The second time, in Aspei fragile but controlled and conn kind. To my eye, which has i jectivity of a mirror, she lool But, she says, "I'm 60 yean nice new face to go with my Perhaps, too, she wants to < throat and around her eyes, what she has been through. But, I am struck by how diffj women to age gracefully. How wrinkles of their accomplish] accomplishment of survival?x alone pride. It is still assumed that age gj to a man's face and "ruins" a have any doubt of that, just 1L women over 55 who "distinguished," or let flash th the different male and female thp wnrH "pvrw>ri*?iu?oH " ?? AV??VVUi (3?llyGiH-ftagtea/7g I-JLL-I) IUnlhl. In... /' y, ?r,'' * r f //" J Jb? jr ( f"_ V'|SAN D ^ > f c>" ,<w 7 times for u ')een youth, c an It's not that I blame 1 look "better" or youi tothing "wrong" didn't have to fight to much difference turning ancient. The job. Nor is there during which youth is a washing away is still premature, those wrinkles. Even 60 isn't what those of self- grandmothers were f someone gets a shoes and half-size dri , then what's the turn 60. thev choose fr years olds, but more ' Ford's surgery, They begin to wond las been through ridiculously young an a kind of litmus look old. They are i of The Age or of unlabeled as 15 year o nuch of her life teen-ager was invent! lies, and she still They are technically menopausal. They a it year. The first middle-aged, or the vo len's Conference them. But many are ul to listen to her sitive to the changes in 5 was clearly not any adolescent. 1 in July, she was In some ways it's ected, as well as impressively aged. T< none of the sub- Louise Nevelson. Or t led wonderful. Georgia O'Keefe. Wc > old. I wanted a image in our minds < r%??4l/aal ? 12/& 99 mm* w luiuui new me. imucuum iauy we wax erase, from her If the cultural proc the evidence of then women perhaps sense of generating ri icult it still is for If they didn't have tc few can wear the then the line between ments?even the stark as white roots a? vith any ease, let This, too, may chanj liiroc ora nVionrrinrr U HTVO UAV VUUllgliig. JLi ives "character" Ford says that her c woman's. If you silly for me to do this, I st the number of get to be 60 ... ." Shi are labeled will share her feelings rough your mind Well ... I hope she ! images that fit (c) 1978, The Boston - pany ? Washington 1 r ^E-GO J 7/^ p 1 ' *-> ? ?r-v-: wrnen 11 na age Betty Ford for wanting to lger. But I wish women stay young out of fear of re are so many years unbecoming but old age it used to be. When our 10, they wore black tie esses, wnen our mouiers om the same racks as 40 carefully. ler whether this outfit is id that one makes them an in-between, and as Ids were before the word xi. / pre-geriatric and postre dubbed the elderly ung elderly, or neither of as vulnerable and sen> their bodies and lives as easier to be among the ) be eccentric at 78 like o be engraven at 90 like j all seem to carry an of the marvelous white.i. i. l-.i. 1:1 n..i a. a. 1 ii wi iuu& u&c. out not yci. ess were a gentler one, could grow ripe with the ather than deteriorating. > struggle quite so hard, the ages wouldn't be as (ainst Clairol-brown hair, ge as so much of women's ut it will be slow. Betty children "thought it was but I told them, when you 3 assumes that then they and perhaps her actions. 5 s wrong. i Globe Newspaper ComPost Writers Group /m, 'Confeder; symbol of To the Editor: Obviously the writer of "Whatever \ joking in his support of the Confedera enough on the surface, these custoi racism as the robes of the Ku Klux K races. In today's society these symbo should be a forgotten era. f A ? A A% n # 9 u is repugnant mat uie i/omeaera capital building. This provides a last state government is not yet ready to a' Confederate flag remains only for iti British flag? Obviously the British nu to American cultures and society than We too, are white southerners. Both Carolina for generations and bore the The flag of the Confederacy is hardly and progressive future' but of yean truth of the matter is that southern h< any means. And no, the men of the o fought for the tradition of not only bl 'College life need not be so difficult' To the Editor: Bill Buffing ton'8 cartoon in the September 29 Gamecock of a student trying to cope with too much school in too little time was a poignant illustration of college life for many USC students. Uiey are at the point "I can't keep this up much longer" but don't know how to more efficiently cope with their studies. They despair, fall farther behind, drop out, flunk out, or work See Struggling, page 19 :@j)'%, \M )U'RE TALKING MONEY/ j HAT *S WROMfe WlTM j LINDBERGH FIELD ^ iRPORT WHERE. J * l?> NOW ? / a. .esmifs \ p. 4 v . ?Gajmeoook, 'V /->/* ate flag racism' lappened to playing 'Dixie'?" was te flag and 'Dixie*. While innocent ns are as symbolic of hate and Ian to a great many people of all Is are no more than relics of what ite flag should fly over the state :ing reminder to blacks that their ccept them as equal citizens. If the i historical value, why not fly the tde a more significant contribution [ the short-lived Confederacy. of our families have lived in South sir share of losses in the Civil War. representative of our 'proud past i of humiliation and despair. The sritage is nothing to be proud of by Id South did not die in vain. They ack slavery, but white slavery as well. The fact is that only 5 percent # it ? ? * oi souuierners owned staves oeiore the Civil War and the rest lived in a state of mere existence. These poor white farmers were totally brainwashed and fought for a system that totally manipulated them. If anyone can call that a proud heritage, he is really blind to reality. It would be very disillusioning if the 1970 poll were correct, and the majority of students at USC wanted to revive these symbols. 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