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...Palo Alto, where an assistant professor at Stanford earns nearly $28,000, a university-area house costs about $325,000 (vs. $144,000 around New York City). Stanford President Donald Kennedy admits that professors are rejecting jobs there because of housing costs. Says University of California Faculty Housing Coordinator Afton Crooks: "Our recruitment and retainment have been seriously affected. They come out to Berkeley or to the other campuses, price homes and tell...
...plus light entertainments that appear each month? "It's not Joyce Carol Gates under a pseudonym," says Gallon's Sullivan. Given the turgid prose style, that much, at least, is certain. Novice authors, in fact, tend to be housewives supplementing the family income, like Parris Afton Bonds of Lewisville, Texas. Bonds spends her day with five sons, ages one to 13, and plots her amours "after the diapers are rinsed...
...Mass itself was filled with pageantry and song. At the Offertory, farm families carried to the altar symbolic gifts of soil, hand tools and garden vegetables: peppers and zucchini from Beverly and Tom Manning of Dallas Center; potatoes and apples from Frieda and Ray O'Grady of Afton; ears of corn from Mabel and Art Schweers of Lenox. In his homily, John Paul praised agriculture and one more time called attention to the plight of the world's poor. He told the farmers, "You have the potential to provide food for the millions who have nothing to eat and thus...
...Parodying an oft-repeated line from Mondale's speeches, "We want jobs -not hot air," reporters presented Mondale with a T shirt labeled WE WANT NEWS-NOT HOT AIR. He donned it at the end of an Election Day program that took him from tiny (pop. 2,000) Afton, Minn., where he voted, to his dentist for a checkup, and a tour of a museum...
...Mondales live in an unpretentious old house that is still partially unfurnished. They rent out a spare bedroom to a college student, and the family cannot afford a separate home back in Minnesota. Instead, they share a house in Afton with Joan's parents. About three weekends out of four, the Senator is away politicking, but Joan says she is used to it. "I have my own life, a separate life," she notes. "We've never had him at home...