Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women are due soon. "I'm not looking forward to it," says Stratton. "I end up telling them about Tampax and the Pill and making sure they wear cotton underwear." Despite her own youth, Stratton thinks she is in danger of becoming a surrogate mother to the teen-age recruits. Her solution: "I'm too much of a bitch figure to be a mother figure...
Nkomo insisted that the Rhodesians had hit a refugee center for young, old and ill Zimbabweans at Chikumbi. "We even had some blind people there," he said after the raid. Medical teams in Lusaka who treated the casualties said most of the injured were young men of military age wearing green fatigue uniforms...
...Wilkinson looked his age when he let in the press after praising his men for the game they had played. His face was drawn, his eyes were red, and his voice was very soft and tightly controlled - always a danger sign with him. Then Dallas Defensive Line Coach Ernie Stautner dropped by. "You guys deserve a lot more than you've been getting," he said, and Wilkinson's face brightened briefly...
DIED. W. Eugene Smith, 59, renowned photojournalist whose work strongly reflected his own compassionate nature; after falling and striking his head while recovering from a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. A native Kansan who began his career at age 14 on Wichita's newspapers, Smith was critically injured on Okinawa in 1944 while on wartime assignment for LIFE magazine. After 32 operations and two years of convalescence, Smith returned to work on a series of memorable LIFE photo essays, including "Country Doctor," "Spanish Village" and "Nurse-Midwife." In 1971 Smith moved to the Japanese fishing village of Minamata to begin...
DIED. Dan Dailey, 61, lanky, affable actor and song-and-dance star; of anemia, after an artificial hip inserted last year became infected; in Hollywood. A teen-age vaudevillian, Dailey appeared on the Broadway musical stage before making such movies as Mother Wore Tights (1947) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948). From 1969 to '71 he starred in the TV series The Governor...