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...lives of millions of working women and, increasingly, men does not necessarily guarantee its success as the subject of gripping fiction. And Gordon appears determined to make her novelistic task as difficult as possible. The temporary solution to Anne's child-care quandary is introduced in the person of Laura Post, a large, drab woman in her early 20s who is hired as a live-in helper chiefly because no one else becomes available. Anne does not realize that Laura is a religious fanatic who believes she has been touched by the Spirit and whose mission in life...
...finally, of course, they vote you in. Last week Geraldine Ferraro, 49, seemed well on her way to fulfilling the dream. At a $100-a-head benefit roast for the Women's Action Alliance in Manhattan, she took a round of ribbing from the likes of her daughter Laura Zaccaro, Feminist Gloria Steinem, New York City Council President Carol Bellamy and Comedian Marilyn Michaels. Then Ferraro took a turn at ribbing herself. "Governor Cuomo said the focus of the campaign should be the family. But I didn't know it was my family!" she joshed, referring to her husband John...
...Captains Mary Hulbert and Laura Kaye led the way yesterday at Hemenway Gym, posting victories over Yale's number one and five players. Anita Nader and Cimarda Barbite...
...from New York, and the champion's influence "got me to scratching them books" (he now possesses more than 250 manuals on checkers). Roach went on to make it himself as a master in tournament play and to earn the nickname "Double-Trouble" Roach, and to antagonize his wife Laura. "I don't play with him any more," she allowed. "He started getting fancy, playing me blindfolded. I won't put up with that mess...
...miles southwest of Mobile on a two-lane blacktop bleached by the sun to fish-belly white, in a community called Fowl River. After the accident in 1975 gave him a limpy leg, his physician told him to assign his hurt limb to as few chores as possible. So Laura Roach took over the fruit stand, as well as a barbecue pit in summer, and Eugene Roach bolted to the wall nearest his gas pumps a custom-made checkerboard table bearing the legend IT'S YOUR MOVE. And Eugene Roach sat down...