■ If you’ve been meaning to bone up on “Membrane Processing of Cottage Cheese Whey for Pollution Abatement,” you’ll be glad to know there’s a new government booklet on that subject (92AA, 1971, 123 pp. il. EP 1.16:12060 DSB 09/71 S/N 5501-0256), for $1.25. Don’t write us; write the Supt. of Documents.
■ The equal rights (for women) amendment may not make it after all: The drive for it has lost much of its momentum, and now faces a tough goal-line stand in the states that have not ratified it. Remarkable, really, in view of how little has been heard of the arguments against it, traditionalist (women are different, and have always and everywhere possessed a status different from that of men), libertarian (freedom means the right to discriminate, e.g., have an exclusively men’s club or bar), and practical (women in the trenches? equal access to the same sauna bath?). The amendment would not promote felicity, except perhaps among lawyers anticipating the rewards of litigation. Sixteen of the remaining 28 states must approve it before it becomes part of the Constitution.
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