Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, and George Braithwaite, 36, a graduate of New York's City College, a United Nations employee and the only black in the group. The women players were Connie Sweeris, 20, a diminutive housewife from Grand Rapids, Mich.; Olga Soltesz, 17, of Orlando, Fla., who resembles a teenage Joan Baez; and Judy Bochenski, 15, of Eugene, Ore. Also invited was SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Richard Miles, ten times U.S. table tennis champion...
Wolbach's John Burris, so loyal to North that he tried to pass for a female in the House meet held a few weeks ago, swam 500 lengths over the five days of the marathon, Burris's performance was equalled by sophomore Joan Fuchs of Holmes...
Aspiring rejasers can find ample tips in books like Joan Ranson Shortney's How to Live on Nothing (Pocket Books; 95?), which includes a 100-item check list for transforming everyday discards. A light bulb, for instance, makes a handy sock-darning egg. With blackboard paint, an old window shade becomes a roll-up chalkboard for children. By nailing upturned bottle caps to a board, the kids can make a front-door footscraper. These days, rejasers even dump junked cars neatly offshore: the hulks act like coral reefs, attracting fish-and fishermen...
Cardboard Steel. Panel Chairman Fred Rogers, producer of one of television's leading children's programs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, says: "Commercials stress that in order to play you need a toy, that your mental resources are not enough." Another panelist, Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, worries about the distortions in children's ads. "The product," she notes, "looks attractive on the screen because the cardboard materials are shiny and made to look like steel...
...While it's easy enough to say what Rags isn't-it isn't Vogue or Harper's Bazaar or Gentleman's Quarterly or the fashion pages of Esquire or Mr. Cavett's wardrobe furnished by J. Press or Joan Kennedy showing up at a White House reception in a tie-dyed leather gauche after threatening for a week to appear in hot pants-it's somewhat more difficult to say exactly what it is. As Rags describes itself...