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...voluptuous Laura Jo stood in for her father, Rear Admiral James Watkins, U.S.N., and his wife Sheila. Last week she found herself listening to some more of Charles' talk. As his guest, she sat in the Strangers' Galleries at the House of Lords when he made his maiden speech, 16 minutes on the need for recreational facilities for young people. Charles and Laura Jo were having their own problems about recreational facilities. A secretarial student at San Diego's Kelsey-Jenney College, Laura Jo was invited on Charles' suggestion to attend retiring U.S. Ambassador Walter Annenberg...
Leon Jaworski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .Karl Maiden...
...week the wide-bodied A300B airbus, made by a Paris-based multinational consortium called Airbus Industrie, went into commercial service on Air France between Paris and London. This week the ambitious MRCA (multirole combat aircraft), a joint project of Britain, West Germany and Italy, is scheduled to make its maiden flight in the skies above Munich. Both promise to offer stiff competition for American planemakers...
...been taken down the garden path by a master. Timothy Foote "I was tracked for science in high school," says A.G. Mojtabai (sounds like much to buyee), a 36-year-old New York City librarian, "and in some ways I've had no literary education at all." Her maiden name was Ann Grace Alpher. Eventually she went to Antioch to major in philosophy and math (as well as taking graduate degrees in philosophy and library science at Columbia), but she remembers being put in Slow English at Westfield High School in New Jersey, where she played ticktacktoe...
Some women, like Susan McGovern Rowen, daughter of Senator George McGovern, are opting to switch back from their husbands' to their "birth names." ("Maiden" name, it is generally agreed, seldom applies to today's bride.) Others like Nancy Lee-Borden, a graduate student at the University of North Dakota, and Geraldine Yarnal-Truslow, a psychiatric social worker in The Bronx, hyphenate their own and their husbands' names. A handful, noting that their birth names are really other men's names-their fathers'-call themselves Sarahchild, Murielchild or the like, after their mothers...