HELLO NORMA RAE: At age 29, Angela...

HELLO NORMA RAE: At age 29, Angela Keefe became one of only a handful of women in Southern California Tuesday to head a big local union (D1). She beat incumbent Steven A. Beyer in a bitter election for president of the Santa Ana-based hotel and restaurant workers’ local. . . . New York’s Lenore Miller, the first woman to head a major U.S. union, the 140,000 Retail, Wholesale and Department Store workers, predicts more women in lead roles. “We’re the wave of the future,” Miller says.