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...Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for the second; in Dublin...
...across the U.S. nowadays. In Oakland, Calif., when the moon is full, a group of college-educated people gather in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, remove their clothes, and whirl through the double spiral of a witches' dance. In southern New Jersey, a 30-year-old receptionist winds thread around a voodoo doll and sticks steel pins into it in a determined effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people ? mostly professionals, such as office managers, nurses, social workers and chemists ? meet weekly...
Four years ago, it seemed impossible that Madelon Talley could climb to the top in mutual funds. She had no college degree and had worked only briefly as an ad-agency receptionist before becoming a Manhattan housewife and the mother of three children. Landing a job was no problem. She and her husband, a trade-book publisher, were friends of Dreyfus Corp. Chairman Howard Stein. But that friendship-and some courses in economics at Columbia -got her a job only as a $6,000-a-year statistician. It was enough to give her a chance to show that...
...early September, two plain-clothesmen entered the office of the Foundation and without identifying themselves told the receptionist that they wanted to see Hakim. Hakim, who had been in a meeting in another room, came out. When he did, the plainclothesmen drew their guns. It is not clear whether or not they also identified themselves at this point. In any event. Hakim fled from their guns, and the receptionist raced into the room where the meeting was going on. She screamed. "There's some white men trying to shoot Malik." By this time, the people in the room had caught...
Married. Patrick Buchanan, 32, politically conservative speechwriter to President Nixon; and Shelley Scarney, 33, one of Nixon's secretaries during the 1960 presidential campaign and now a White House receptionist; both for the first time; in Washington...