Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...families of two bystanders killed by a train as they waited for Kennedy's funeral train to pass through Elizabeth, N.J., and ordered a huge toy dog for a three-year-old injured in the accident. She also found the time and courage to help close down her husband's Washington campaign headquarters, shaking hands with each volunteer and thanking him for his effort...
...every eight marriages in the U.S. is a potentially dangerous mismatch, biochemically speaking. In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood and is Rh-negative; the husband has the factor and is Rh-positive. The difference does not usually affect the couple's first baby. But if the baby is Rh-positive, there is a progressively increasing chance of trouble in later pregnancies. In such cases, the Rh-negative mother develops an immunity to future Rh-positive babies and may send enough damaging antibodies into the developing child...
Satan-May-Care. As Rosemary Woodhouse, she and her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) are delighted to find an apartment in the Branford, a penumbral old fortress of an apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West, modeled on the real-life Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street (where some of the exterior scenes were shot). Rosemary's bookish old father figure, Hutch (Maurice Evans), is not too pleased; the Branford, he notes, has an unsavory history of suicides and diabolical doings, including the murder of a notorious Satanist...
...ensure a good novel, however, and it is an achievement quite apart from female impersonation that Moore's novel is excellent. It is a psychological study of one day in the life of Mary Dunne, a pretty woman of 33, married more or less happily to her third husband, a successful playwright. Dunne's day is a series of emotional squalls, between which she ducks in and out of recollected doorways...
...learns that her mother may have cancer. She has lunch with a bitchy girl friend from Montreal who tells her that one of her former husbands is a suicide. She and her present husband make love enjoyably (it is a fine touch that Mary thinks of men in dim and stereotyped terms, as if seen by a self-obsessed woman...