Page Layout ⇒ keeping two paragraphs on same page

[Curious George]

Recently I used LaTex to create an abstract booklet for a mini-conference. For each entry I tried to use a format like:

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\begin{samepage}
\section*{Presenters's name}
Presenter's Affiliation\\
Presentation Title\\[2ex]
Abstract
\end{samepage}

but there were often page breaks between the Title and the Abstract. Changing the above to:

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\begin{samepage}
\section*{Presenters's name}
Presenter's Affiliation\\
Presentation Title\\
\ \\
Abstract
\end{samepage}

removed the unwanted page breaks. But this seems somewhat inelegant; also rather limiting, since the vertical gap between the title and the abstract must be exactly \baselineskip. Is there a better solution?

Thanks for any suggestions -

[cgnieder]

Have you tried

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Presentation Title\\*[2ex]
Abstract

The starred version is meant to prevent a page break at the line break.

Regards