Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Former Army Intelligence Agent Ralph M. Stein said that the Army had collected personal data on a wide number of notable Americans, including the late Martin Luther King, the late Whitney Young, Singers Joan Baez and Arlo Guthrie, Georgia State Representative Julian Bond, Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...Joan Baez had something special to sing about-Husband David Harris, 25, was free after serving 20 months for refusing to register for the draft. Joan, 30, and their 16-month-old son Gabriel met him at the penitentiary near El Paso; from there, they flew to a San Francisco press conference. David plans "getting my feet on the ground" and then (with the permission of his parole officer) to go back to resisting the Indochinese war and the Selective Service. His resistance will be nonviolent, because nonviolence is "the most powerful tool available to anybody in this society...
...sweet music of thunderous applause fell upon the pink ears of Prima Donna Joan Sutherland after her premiere performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg last week. But oh! Boos followed for the weak conducting of her husband Richard Bonynge in the orchestra pit. Shaking her fist in fury, Miss Sutherland stomped onto the stage and stormed off again -refusing further curtain calls. Next day the Hamburg papers carried jittery editorials, worrying about whether Sutherland & Co. would pack up and go. No problem. Soon she was down at the Hamburg docks, her fist clenched now around a champagne bottle, with...
...person readying to swim the first leg of the 80 yard backstroke relay for North House didn't look like your ordinary Radcliffe girl. The swimsuit didn't quite fit, and the sideburns under the swimming cap were unusual. At any rate, Joan Field was definitely a weird-looking chick...
After the race was finished and the North House team disqualified, the 70 people who crammed into the tiny area around the pool in the Radcliffe Gym were amazed that John Burris, member of the Crimson swimming team and alias Joan Field, had managed to pass for a girl. McCabe said, "I don't think more than one or two people knew it was a guy until after the race was over...