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...Though Pamela Cortez returned to her secretarial job shortly after giving birth to Daughter Kimberly, her thoughts stayed at home. As a result, her work suffered. Recalls Cortez: "I went through several baby-sitters trying to find a good one. I worried during the workday and found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Room for Baby | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...emotionally." A circle of strangers, all intricately wielding lip pencils, choruses sympathetically, "Baby, I know just what you mean." A dealer from another casino drops in to visit a friend, who looks at the dealer's name tag and says, "Bernadette? Since when?" The real name is Pamela, but, she says, "I'm sick of it. I tried Edith one time and all I got was 'Oh ho, Edith, have your cake and Edith too, eh?' Mona is best. It sounds sort of untouchable." The false Bernadette says she had dinner with "someone influential, very prominent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...photo lab; and the third wilder the chandeliers of the San Francisco ""Hilton's Imperial Ballroom. The hotel facility will contain much of the equipment of a large news bureau, plus that of our New York wireroom, including sophisticated transmission computers and phone systems. So far, Housing Coordinator Pamela Thompson has reserved 162 rooms in nine different hotels in the Bay Area; the Nation-section staff will commute to the convention by ferry from Sausalito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 16, 1984 | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Robert Williams was convicted of murdering Pamela Powers, 10, in Iowa. That conviction was appealed to the Supreme Court and was thrown out in 1977 because of a famous illegal police interrogation-the "Christian burial" ploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Much Ado About a Shift to the Right | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...that the parents "should be entitled to a Christian burial for the little girl." Moved, Williams led them to the body. Since police had promised his lawyer they would not interrogate him, the court threw out his statements. Williams was convicted at a second trial, in which evidence about Pamela's body was admitted but not Williams' involvement in the discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Much Ado About a Shift to the Right | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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