social roles of the sexes-in which housekeeping is evidently not considered real work, and male domestics are obviously all suspect of aberrant tendencies. A Congressional committee on equal opportunity employment has been working hard on the question of whether classification of job opportunities by sex is not a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act dealing with job discrimination, according to Andrew Tully of the ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL and other sources. If findings warrant, "newspapers may be pressured to lump both sexes under one label, 'NEUTER' ". Also, a Dr. Nancy Roman, described as a woman scientist, is reported as saying that "little girls should be encouraged to play with erector sets, and little boys with dolls, to break down 'segregation by occupation' in their childhood." Wonder how long it's been since advice-column writing was an allmale job category?

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"Evil spirits possess me at times," has actually appeared on "true or false" questionnaires dreamed up as "research projects" by the U. S. Office of Education, reports the N. Y. POST, for 9/24. Other tidbits: "My sex life is satisfactory," and "I believe in a life hereafter." Denounced as "infringements of individual privacy," by Congressman C. E. Gallagher (D-N.J.), such questions will be eliminated from subsequent tests, or so the Office of Education promises. And the Richmond TIMES DISPATCH for 9/24 and 9/30 describes how the U.S. Office of Education has quizzed grade-school toddlers on their "mother's and dad's income, and social life and their own sex life." As for kindergarteners, 5-year-old boys have been given tests to "test their masculinity." A little A little premature maybe? Some fellas in their teens, even, aren't too well settled in that direction.

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