Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for all the interest is that Mommie is the late Joan Crawford, one of the great movie stars of the '30s and '40s, and, if the book is to be believed, also one of the worst parents of all time, a female Jekyll and Hyde capable of the most monstrous cruelty...
Danehy breezed through the commissioner's race in the primary the way most incumbents do--by being first on the ballot. He won handily in a field of four, and thus dispatched any serious opposition for Tuesday. There is a rumor that Joan Needleman of Newton might be trying to run a sticker campaign on the Republican side, which should be good for many laughs but not too many votes...
...Camelot again, if only for a few sunny days. "Now at last Jack has come back to Harvard," said Senator Ted Kennedy as his wife Joan wiped away a tear. Jackie Onassis and her children Caroline and John were also present at the dedication of the new $12 million building housing the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The school, which applies to government problems the case-study method pioneered by Harvard Business School, will be, said Ted, "a bridge between the academy and the world of politics." It will also be a living memorial to J.F.K. Said...
...principal actors in that anachronistic tableau, Andorra's co-Princes, are France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel, Joan Marti Alanis. Their co-sovereignty over Andorra dates back to 1278, when their predecessors, the Count de Foix and the Urgel bishop, settled a dispute over who owned the 190 sq. mi. territory by agreeing to rule it in tandem. The Spanish title of co-Prince was handed down in a direct line to the present bishop, while on the French side it passed to the Kings of Navarre, then to Napoleon...
...company had known for some time that these tires are a severe problem, with manydefective failures," Thunder Joan Claybrook, chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Last week, after months of angry negotiations, NHTSA pressed an agreement out of Firestone to recall its old 500 model steel-belted radials, which had experienced an unusual number of tread separations and blowouts...