Word: iva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier, after a one-hour rain delay, Hana Mandlikova, the No. 3 women's seed, swept impressively into the second round with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over fellow Czechoslovakian, Iva Budarova...
...Iva Morill just turned 81. She has owned a frame duplex in southwest Hartford since 1945. Last July the bad news came. Her taxes were delinquent by more than $1,000. On an annual income of $2,080, how could she pay up? Without children, and wheelchair-bound for 25 years, Iva Morill had expected the notice. "I would lie in bed at night, worrying about my taxes...
...Iva, in a crisp, fresh, lavender dress, is sitting in her small, neat-as-a-pin duplex. "Something about the in-kind program came with the tax notice. I hadn't worked since I had been in the wheelchair, but I knew I could." Iva is dark-haired, feisty and determined. She went to city hall, hired on as a tax division clerk, particularly to process parking tickets. When Hargreaves offered to have her picked up and returned home each day, Iva rebelled: "I'll take care of myself." An independent Vermont Yankee, she drives...
...enjoyed the work," says Iva, who has already knocked off $1,000 of her indebtedness at $4.30 an hour. "I felt good about working." Before a spinal injury incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going...