Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Association in New York City. Suddenly Kennedy seemed to be everywhere. He split publicly with the President over what he considered broken campaign promises on national health insurance. At the same time, he was on television answering a lot of questions about the magazine articles in which his wife Joan admitted that she had long been an alcoholic. Politically, he seized every opportunity. After Timothy Hagan, 32, was elected chairman of Ohio's vote-heavy Cuyahoga County, Kennedy's staff immediately invited the new leader to stop by. When Hagan wondered if the Senator might possibly be keynote...
There are lots of good reasons for Kennedy's reluctance. He has a powerful Senate career in his grasp. And a challenge to Carter would focus attention on two extremely troublesome areas of his personal life: his wife Joan's health and, of course, Chappaquiddick...
...Joan Kennedy for years has had a drinking problem, always kept as private as possible. In search of help and treatment, she has spent extended periods away from her family. Although close friends say her recent disclosures offended him, Kennedy-who did not get to read the stories in advance-says that is not so. "Our family has always kept things private," he says, "but once Joan decided it was best for her to talk openly about the problem, I thought it was very brave." Her honesty, in fact, had benefits for both of them. Now everything...
...endorsement carried particular weight because the federal agency, which only last week announced that it was urging Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. to recall 15 million of its steel-belted 500 radial tires for safety defects, is headed by Joan Claybrook, an avid consumerist who for four years directed Ralph Nader's Congress Watch group in Washington. Said Claybrook: "Our conclusion is that the Omni/Horizon has very good handling characteristics very similar to many other small cars...
...when, on exclaiming of Olivia, "She loves me sure," she girlishly claps her hands over her face, or repeatedly swoons at the prospect of having to duel with Sir Andrew. Her performance perhaps owes something to her recent portrayal of another witty and manly woman, Shaw's Saint Joan. It is possibly no coincidence that the supreme traversal of both Viola and Saint Joan were given, in the late '50s, by Siobhan McKenna...