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...thanks to a Paris advertising man, Pascal has a live-in baby sitter and Mme. Blin has an adopted family. The case is not unique in France. Since last year the ad executive, Jean-Pierre Coffe, 35, has placed 1,411 lonely old people in families that need a grandparent...
Sandra McCrary, a U.S. Navy employee who lived in the Washington suburb of Falls Church, Va., and Margaret Gonzales, a Howard University secretary in nearby Dale City, Va., once shared the same baby sitter. That was how they found out that they also shared the same problem. The McCrarys' son Michael, 2, and the Gonzaleses' son Colin, 6, had both been rejected by local private schools. So the parents went to court and charged that their children had been barred on racial grounds. Last week Federal District Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. ruled in their favor and declared...
...widely interpreted as a political gesture in return for Teamster support of Nixon in the election) and by Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. Nonetheless, Clark MacGregor, who headed the re-election committee after John Mitchell resigned, recalls Dean not as part of the power elite but as a "wall sitter"-one who carried out policy rather than helped make...
...quite as socially adaptable as the average barmaid. What the Farmer's Daughter told us was that we reminded her, the five of us, of a younger brother. And she of the worshipped sister, that for me, as an only child, became my first baby sitter. Who tucked me in at the age of five, and replaced my mother, on her rare nights out, to the point of kissing me goodnight. And who I've loved like no one since...
...which does away with the need of dialing a telephone. By pressing a button on the device, which can be easily attached to the phone, a user can reach any one of 38 numbers. Besides its speed and convenience, the Name Caller provides a foolproof way for a baby sitter to phone police, firemen or the family doctor in an emergency. The gadget-about the size of a small bathroom scale-has been available for only four months in seven major markets, including New York City and Los Angeles, and already more than 50,000 have been sold at prices...