Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone wanner or dearer, when she's feeling good." But public life has not been kind to Joan Kennedy. Its wounds can be seen in the puffy eyes, the exaggerated makeup, the tales of alcoholism. Today she is a sadly vulnerable soul and an unknown factor in her husband's electoral equation...
...terrible cycle of family tragedies shattered whatever strength Joan could muster: two brothers-in-law assassinated, her husband's near fatal plane crash, Chappaquiddick, which was followed a month later by a third miscarriage, then her son's leg amputation for cancer at twelve. She attempted a succession of cures: reviving a music career that had faltered, then psychiatrists, alcoholism sanitariums, even megavitamin therapy...
...embarrassment, Joan relapsed badly. Since then, friends say she has tentatively conquered the bottle. She has been seeing a psychotherapist, and attends meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. She has checked herself on occasion into McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., to the unit for former alcoholics who "feel teetery." Her husband will only say cautiously, "I think she's making great progress...
Although Joan has sanctioned Ted's presidential campaign and promised vaguely to politick for him, she has told her husband flatly she wants to finish her master's first, and she has refused to commit herself to life in the White House. And though their separation is supposed to be temporary, she sometimes seems unnerved by their infrequent reunions. One woman friend recalls a scene a few months ago when the Senator's car pulled up in front of Joan's apartment as she stood near by. "Oh, Christ," said Joan, "here he comes...
...name on many tongues is Kim Jong Pil, 53, the first director of the KCIA and the husband of Park's niece...