Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that Rosalynn Carter is quietly counseling Jimmy [Aug. 6]. She has probably kept him from making many more mistakes. How many wives have you seen put a restraining hand on their husband's arm, be it ball games, barrooms or business, and say "Now, dear." It says a lot of good things about Jimmy that he gives Rosalynn the credit that...
...issues in the breakup of Robert and Dorothea Curley's marriage must be unique. Dorothea, 38, filed for divorce in Chicago after 18 years of marriage, three children and, at last count, 35 ducks. During a support hearing, she complained that the ducks her husband kept as pets upset the neighbors with their noise and untidy habits...
...sympathetic judge issued a court order for the removal of the birds in May. But last week Robert, 41, a former Chicago cop, told the judge that when he tried to give them to friends, there were no takers. Dorothea testified that her estranged husband actually had not tried very hard to get rid of the ducks and had been showing up at the house daily to feed them. Added her lawyer: "There are still 35 of them, and that doesn't include the duckling that got stepped on by the family dog and died." Robert's attorney...
...tell me it's a bad dream," sobbed the woman as she bent over her badly wounded husband in downtown Tehran. The couple had been among the more than 100,000 people who took to the streets last Sunday to protest the closure of the popular daily Ayandegan by the increasingly repressive rule of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. As they marched, they chanted slogans denouncing the "regime's encroachments on the people's fundamental liberties." Suddenly, sacks of fine earth were flung into the air by bands of marauding "phalangists," street toughs who break up antigovernment demonstrations...
...collection of magazine articles, The White Album, contains a disagreeably calculated column she wrote for LIFE in 1969. "I had better tell you where I am, and why," Didion begins. Uh oh. The student of Didion is not surprised to learn that she is sitting with her husband in a room in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu (a favorite stage setting), waiting for a tidal wave (which somehow acquires added metaphysical meaning from the fact that it never shows up) and trying to avoid the subject of whether to get a divorce...