MOTHER LOVE By Candace Flynt Farrar Straus Giroux. 342 pp. $17.95 IT IS LATE in the afternoon of Christmas Day in a hillside cemetery near Greensboro, N.C. Three attractive young women, sisters, approach the plain bronze marker of their mother's grave. They are carrying...

ROBERTA STRICKLER Native American crops were grown in ways very unlike the farming that we know today. Farming was a woman's occupation because the men were out hunting and fishing and gathering. Perhaps that is why the three primary vetable crops corn, beans and...

Trudy McCaffery, who co-owned Santa Anita Derby and Pacific Classic winners Came Home and Free House and bred thoroughbreds, has died at 62.McCaffery died Monday at her home in this San Diego suburb after a long battle with cancer.She and former partner John Toffan also...

Bertram A. Powers, the former head of New York's newspaper printers' union who led a 16-week strike in the 1960s that paralyzed the city's dailies, has died. He was 84.Powers died of pneumonia Saturday in Washington, D.C., said his son Brian A. Powers.Bertram Powers led...

Once again we are faced with a neither-film-nor-play production [Three Sisters], but it is, in Moura Budberg's liberal but satisfying translation and under Olivier's semicinematic direction, one at very least to fascinate devotees of the play…. Through several performances, in Geoffrey Unsworth's luscious cinematography (and I mean the adjective in praise of the uncluttered and naturally generated glow his work achieves), and in the pacing there is somehow a sensuality and a sexu...