Word: deegan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be a much tighter contest this year. The Friars still have a wealth of talent to draw upon, although they will be missing the services of two All-Americans who competed in the last meeting. Irish-man John Treacy graduated, while clansman Gerry Deegan returned to his homeland...
Because the method is "natural," it is acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, Monsignor Robert Deegan, of the Los Angeles archdiocese, actively lobbied to get the HEW study grant approved. Still, says Dr. Phyllis McCarthy, an investigator for the study, "some priests are skeptical about the method. They got burned by advising couples to use the rhythm system and don't want any more babies named after them...
Final results of the study, which is being conducted out of Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Medical Center, will not be in until 1979. But early indications have been so promising that Monsignor Deegan is now establishing a center in Los Angeles for the dissemination throughout the world of information about fertility awareness. The name of the center: World Organization of the Ovulation Method Billings -or, for short. WOOMB...
DIED. Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 67, organizer of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As chairman of the World's Fair Corporation, Deegan was instrumental in bringing the Pietà to New York City, the first time Michelangelo's sculpture had been removed from Rome in more than 400 years...
Last Fall, he and five teammates were rushing along the Major Deegan Expressway in New York hoping to catch a plane in time to make it back to Boston for a concert by Sly and the Family Stone. It was a Hertz Chevrolet driven by Keith Colburn...