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...self-cleaning ovens and a microwave unit. "Microwave cooking is a new kitchen technology," argues one defender of the space-age gadget. Adds another: "With microwave ovens, the kids can cook up a meal and eat it, all in the same period.'1 "Phooey," sneers a middle-aged widow and mother of three. "The parents in this town just want high-priced baby-sitting systems for their children...
...bullets intended for John Paul. They were rushed to Holy Spirit Hospital. Both were Americans. Rose Hall, 21, originally from Shirley, Mass., and now married to a Protestant missionary posted in Würzburg, West Germany, had her left arm broken by a slug. Ann Odre, 58, a widow from Buffalo and a devout Catholic who had just realized her longtime dream of seeing the Pope, was hit by a bullet that lodged in her abdomen. At week's end she was in serious condition after a long operation to remove her spleen...
...made the last payment on the house I today," cries Willy Loman's widow at the conclusion of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. "We're free and clear." Many Americans still consider owning a home a virtual birthright, as well as a necessary inflation hedge. But today people are being forced to find ingenious and complex schemes to beat the high cost of achieving Loman's dream...
West Germany's most famous businesswoman is a self-made tycoon. During World War II, she piloted Luftwaffe planes from factories to the front lines. The end of the war found her a penniless widow picking potatoes to support herself and a young son. After hearing complaints from other women about unwanted pregnancies, she consulted a medical book and began selling a four-page birth-control pamphlet. Uhse paid the printer for the first publication by giving him 5 Ibs. of scarce butter...
Some of Smith's disciples have long felt the son was his true spiritual heir. Though a majority followed Young to Utah, some stayed behind, including Smith's mother, widow and brother. Joseph Smith III, only eleven when his father died, eventually became head of the largest dissident group, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Based in Independence, Mo., this church has always been led by direct descendants of the Prophet, currently Great-grandson Wallace B. Smith...