Noted and Quoted

From The MacNeil/Lebrer Newshour. Tuesday, June 16. In a lead-in to a report on corporate child-care facilities, reporter Charlayne Hunter-Gault said, “And now let’s go to Microcosm, USA-Dallas, Texas.”

From New Woman, July 1987. Rev. W.N. Otwell, pastor of Community Baptist Church in Forest Hills, Texas, urging state lawmakers to fire female state employees. “I can tell you one of the things we can do to solve some of the economic problems and abuse problems in the state That’s to send all the women bach home that’s married and got a providing husband. Send them home,”