October 3, 1972 - GOP cabinet members' wives visit Minnesota and campaign for Nixon. Report includes brief interviews with wives.
October 5, 1972 - MPR’s Martin Granger interviews author Benjamin Spock about his writing and political criticism of him from individuals such as Spiro T. Agnew and Norman Vincent Peale.
October 6, 1972 - Excerpt of Kate Millett speaking at Macalester College on discrimination against women professionals, and about women academics at Columbia appealing to HEW for fair treatment.
October 13, 1972 - Walter Mondale speaks about bill to preserve the St. Croix River (the federal Lower St. Croix River Act of 1972).
October 13, 1972 - Kate Millett speaks on self-publishing for & by women. In speech, Millett talks on filtering through the male establishment and the autonomy of women to do their own thing; that an editor is not a writer; and about the opposition to any new artistic form.
October 16, 1972 - MPR’s Rachel Kranz reports on the growth of wild rice production in Minnesota. Kranz talks with farmers about issues and sales of rice as a farm product.
October 18, 1972 - MPR’s Connie Goldman talks with Pat Huss, who discusses the results of Minnesota Public Interest Research Group survey on Twin Cities employment agencies.
October 30, 1972 - Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. Magazine, speaks at a DFL forum on the changing role for women. Steinem talks with MPR’s Connie Goldman and attendees at event.
October 30, 1972 - An interview about young women on college campuses and their involvement with older women’s organizations.
October 31, 1972 - MPR’s Claudia Daly visits a pumpkin patch in Cable, Wisconsin, where the town’s 281 residents converge for pumpkin harvesting.