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Lance Morrow's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" [ESSAY, Nov. 18] recalled to my mind a question posed by a postmaster in Massachusetts when I addressed a package to my daughter in Maryland: "Chevy Chase? A town has already been named after him?" Dorothy Lundberg Washington...
First came the broken windows, then the potshots from a BB gun. Next came the hate-filled crowds in the street chanting, "We want them out!" Huddled inside their new home, Charles Williams, 23, and Marietta Bloxom, 24, watched with growing despair as their daughter Lekeisha, 7, cowered in the middle of the living room, afraid even to peer outside. Faced with the prospect of mob violence, Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode declared a state of emergency on Nov. 22 that banned outdoor gatherings of more than four people in a 30-block area around Williams' house. But by last week...
Johnson has no plans to retire, but he is preparing his daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, 27, to take over some day. With a B. A. in journalism from the University of Southern California, Rice is in charge of Ebony/ Jet Showcase! She says she has absorbed her father's management style: "Delegate freely . . . and check on it every chance you get." --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Elizabeth Taylor/Chicago
...downside of being an actor is that you can't act until somebody hires you," complains Patti Davis. So the President's daughter decided to become her own boss by turning writer. The result is Home Front (Crown; $15.95), to be published in March, a reflective novel about a 1960s college student who defies her politician father to become involved in the antiwar movement. Davis, 33, who co-wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction...
...smells of dirty diapers and grease mingle in the bleak Minneapolis apartment. The TV is tuned to All My Children, and Stephanie Charette, 17, has collapsed on the sofa. Her rest is brief. Above the babble of the actors' voices comes a piercing wail. Larissa, her three-week-old daughter, is hungry. In an adjacent bedroom, Joey, l l/2 years old and recovering from the flu, starts to stir. Stephanie, who is an American Indian and one of ten children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains. So too was her second baby...