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...opinion on women's issues with a sharp, witty and often bristling style. Despite its influence, however, the monthly (circ. 480,000) has rarely turned a profit. Turning to the Aussies for help, Co-Founders Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine announced they will sell the publication to the John Fairfax company, a major Australian communications conglomerate, for an undisclosed price believed to be as much as $15 million...
...converts. Slotline putters have helped Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper win tournaments on the senior tour, and Kathy Baker used one in her victory at the 1985 U.S. Women's Open. But most of Slotline's customers have much more modest goals. Thom Smith, 42, a tax lawyer in Fairfax, Va., says he chopped his handicap from 19 to 13 after he began playing with a set of Slotline irons. "I don't get to practice much," he says, "so I need more forgiving clubs." Forgiveness, though, came at a price: $468 to Duke Duclos, the merchant of high-tech...
Many investors are surprisingly daring at an early stage. Fairfax Randall, a Houston homemaker and sometime interior decorator, boosted her portfolio from $250,000 to $2 million in just three years by leveraging, or borrowing money to increase her stock-market wagers. But she ventured naively into risky stock options and lost $1.5 million during the 1981-82 recession. Then, through cautious decisions and hard work, she built her portfolio back to $2 million. Says she: "The stock market is my absolute love. I don't buy pretty clothes, and I never spend much money on myself...
...seems to be depending on prayer as much as legal advice. "His faith in the Lord is his backbone right now," says his sister Patricia, who lives in California. Though he still considers himself a Roman Catholic, North now attends the Church of the Apostles, an Episcopalian congregation in Fairfax, Va., known for such charismatic practices as faith healing and speaking in tongues. North has told his fellow churchgoers about how, at Camp Lejeune in 1978, he suffered a sudden bout of back pain. An officer knelt before him, laid on his hands and "healed...
Labor shortages are so acute in Fairfax County that the new hotels are recruiting at local senior citizen centers. The American Automobile Association has announced that it will move its national headquarters from Fairfax County to Orlando in 1989. The reasons, said the AAA, were the difficulty of finding enough clerical workers in Fairfax and, of all things, traffic congestion...