European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The age of going Public in july Tontti Climpton a ref a tv.vr.tftoT. 30, l Honfai wlm Buhton. She Del nil her trophy in than nol " worm. Up Polo  new York times oing Public about birthdays is becoming the thing 1o do in the United slates among a new Breed of feminists the Glamour women in their 40s and 50s. Not thai there in t a lot of lying still going on. Among men As Well As among women Jane Fonda 49 years old and still kicking higher than anybody else in leotards is reigning Champion of the Malure woman. But Many others from Gloria Sleem to Shirley Maclaine have made a Pom of blowing out the so candles on i heir cakes wish such fanfare that women of their generation could not help noticing and earlier this month Martina Navratilova who is 30 and old for a woman in professional Tennis claimed her Wimbledon trophy in the name of older  Given such testimonials some women were puzzled Las Wrecx when Molly Yard who is known 1o be in her 70s, repeatedly refused to Letl her age to reporters Afler her election As president of the National organization Lor women my first thought was How absurd said Janice v. Pearson a 38-year-old computer systems analyst the woman is 70-something, she Calls herself a born feminist and she won1 say when she was  the Samo thought crossed the minds of Many women judging from interviews around new York City a concern was Hal Yard s Sec Iccy Aboul her age would iced the sort of sexual Solero Typo now seeks to eradicate that a woman never tells her age or Law nor tics Aboul her ago it s for ii to he this from the pros Ideal of now said Abby Lyons who is 22 ant works for a video production company in Manhattan. She s per Euialina another cliche about women that sets them apart irom men. These cliches Hurt women especially in the business world " among older women there wore ears Hal Yard s Lack of Candor might be interpreted by others of her generation As a negative message about aging. Annabelle Cohen 51. A librarian in Brooklyn said ii would have been an ego boost for Oldt women in Molly Yard had just gone on television tossed up on her age. And told her Story. Her hang up Aboul age obscured the lad i hat otherwise she came across As quite  yet some of the women who thought Public figures should be candid Aboul age seemed to struggle with their own ambivalence about birthdays. Some admitted to fudging the numbers at least in their professional lives. As an advertising Agency executive put in ii Guys Liko Gary Hart can shave Oil a year or two. Why can t we on this we have equally " a labor lawyer. Judith p. Vladeck said she saw at least three clients a Day who claim age discrimination Many of them women. Unfortunately she said women in the work place Are viewed As older earlier than men. A -15-year-old woman is Over the Hill. A 45-year-old Man is just hitting his  Vladeck. 53, added i Don l take Issue wi1h Molly Yard. She s taking a principled position and saying age is As irrelevant As any other characteristic used for stereotyping " a an interview. Yard said her stand on age dated Back to the 1950s, when she was working to elect democratic candidates but before she herself became one. "1 had a political Mentor in pills Burgh a City  she recalled and she Lold to. Use your own name and never Lell your age maintaining that ago is so  she added. Whal mailers is who you arc and whal you Are capable of doing " Yard acknowledged however that oven after making speeches on behalf of Iho proposed equal rights amendment audiences Ollen asked que Lions Aboul her age. In the business world older women arc no longer alone in hiding birthdays "1 have resumes coming across my desk All the  said Amelia Augustus president of the women s economic round table whose members represent 50 professions. Even the Young kids nowadays Don l put Down the Dale of College graduation something older women have always seen As professional  the motives of the groups differ she said the younger ones omit tha Dales to hide Lack of experience. When they re older and have experience they can t show it Lor oar they la be penalized because of their  although concealing or lying Aboul age is still common among women men Are beginning to use the same tactics said or. Rita Freedman. A psychologist in Scarsdale . Men faced with career changes Al 50 and 60 Are doing a Good Deal of lying she said and even men advertising in the personals columns Are beginning to distort  noting that age is a far greater problem Tor women than men. She added surveys show Hal actually the worst thing you can ask a woman is nol her age but her  As Kcf the trend to the new Glamour woman in her 60s. Freedman said in May have made a a Roger women feet less anxious Aboul aging and older women More truthful about their Ages. But it is another kind of stereotype tha women who have stopped time she said they be become super heroines in a sense because they do whal no one else can do stay Young  Liz Carpenter still changing i. A. U Bureau Liz c by Carol Lawson new York times Hen Liz Carpenter talks she looks at you straight in the Eye and lires away in a deep Texas drawl thai has tools predating 1he fall of the Alamo. 11 had a whale of a Lime on this Earlh said the woman who spent much of her we working the corridors of Power in Washington first As a newspaper reporter and later As lady Bird Johnson s much admired press Secretary. I was not shy or limit i was never bored and i had a restless spirit Hal kept drawing me to new  she never hesitated she added to charge hell with a bucket of  Carpenter who can be called Texas answer to auntie mame. Has been thinking a lot Aboul her colourful and adventuresome a lately because Al 66. She senses thai Lime is running  she said but before that happens Wilh a Good exit line she Hopes she wants to make sure thai her two grandchildren know certain things about her. Sho wants them to know of the exhilarating things i cd done and some of the things i be Learned " and she wants them always Loie mumber to continue growing and to a free spi Iii. Learn 1o Fly Carpenter spent a year writing i All Down talking on paper " she Calls in. The result is ceding better All the time Simon & schuster $17.95. A Memoir that is Al once upbeat and bittersweet. She was in new York recently on whal. In a slip of her politically steeped Tongue she called a Campaign Trail to promote her Book a Short heavy set woman with a Huffy Cloud of White hair Carpenter said that if in was up to her. She would be doing interviews in her outdoor Jacuzzi the social Centrepiece of her Home in Austin Tex. Bui she had to make do in her publisher s office where she kicked of her shoes and managed to make herself Al Home carpenter1 Book written in a warm chatty tone tells the Story of a Young woman who was born in Rural Salado Tex. Population 1.500and whose Lile was transformed when she took up journalism As a College freshman at the University of Texas. It was there that she Mol her future husband Leslie Carpenter a fellow journalism Slud enl on the school paper who shared her fantasy thai they wore characters in the film the front Page. The carpenters worked together in Washington Lof Many years reporting Lor a string of soul Western newspapers that subscribed to then Carpenter news Bureau. Carpenter Lell the Bureau in i960 to work for Lyndon Johnson s vice presidential Campaign. Her Job was to stage political rallies in the South thai were known As flying Tea  the name of the game Carpenter said with a nearly laugh was to Lake those Lunny talking Kennedy sadies from Massachusetts Wilh lady Bird at the Helm and hit Texas and other Stales in the Bible Bel and Provo that roman catholics did t have horns and  the election. Vice president Johnson named her his executive assistant Carpenter was in the motorcade in Dallas the Day president Kennedy was shot and she wrote the Brief speech thai her Boss delivered 1o the nation asking for your help and god  when he returned to Washington hours later As president Carpenter Span the next five years As mis. Johnson s press Secretary. Reporters who worked with her in i Hose Days remember her Lor her competence and the Nelly sense of humor and Lun she brought to the Iob she wrote Aboul her while House years in a Besl Selling Book Fhil Les and flourishes published by douwedayinl970.in 1971 Oul of Iho White Houie and ready to see some action again Carpenter turned her considerable Energy to the women s movement she became a Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday. August 16,1987