Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priests since 1969; of polymyositis; in Cambridge, Mass. As Bishop of Pittsburgh (1959-69), the Boston-born Wright was a fierce battler against racial discrimination, an opponent of the Viet Nam War and an outspoken theological conservative, opposing the ordination of women. He was also an authority on Joan of Arc. Even as the highest ranking American in the Vatican Curia, he never forgot his roots, dining nearly every Saturday on Boston baked beans...
...Joan B. Claybrook, 42, spent seven years as a Nader Raider before Carter put her into the driver's seat of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. During the past two years, she has ordered a record 15.6 million automobiles recalled for safety checks and changes. Her biggest victory: forcing Firestone to take back 8.7 million "500" radial tires, a move that so far has cost the company $147 million. She has also established tough fuel economy standards (27 m.p.g. by 1984) and stuck to them despite protests from manufacturers. Some of her former consumer-rights colleagues claim Claybrook...
James Taylor, Joan Armatrading and the Pousett-Dart Band-- Harvard Stadium, Cambridge. Telephone 482-0650. July 28, 2 p.m. (rain date July 29). $12.50 and $11.50 in advance; $13.50 and $15 day of show. Presented by the Busch Summer Music Festival to benefit Summerthing...
...celebrate the 86th birthday of Europe's greatest living painter, some 300 examples of Joan Miro's last quarter-century of work were rounded up for a unique display at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera. The ultimate objetamid the sculpture, paintings and stained glass: the artist himself, in a rare public appearance. Physically Miro showed the shadings of age; artistically, however, he sounded positively primal. "I have a whole infinity of projects in mind," he promised the gathering of international well-wishers. "I am simply waiting for an opportunity to realize them...
...where no scene had existed before, one came into being. What had been smouldering before burst into flames. Joan Baez was the most prominent member of a group whose numbers were growing daily, as were their abilities as musicians and performers. More important still was the fact that there was an audience for this music. People wanted to hear it. It filled some need that we all shared in common before we ever knew what it was. Whatever plans we might have had before were to be totally changed...