Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the removal of her left breast because of cancer in 1970, Mrs. Joan Dawson, 54, of New York City, spent the next three years battling depression and a sense of loss. Then she decided to do something about it. Most women in the same situation turn to a psychiatrist. Mrs. Dawson (not her real name) went to her doctor and asked him to rebuild her missing breast. "I didn't want to be made into a sensational beauty," she explained. "I just wanted to be restored." Her surgeon was able to do just that. In two separate operations...
WOMEN SINGERS have only recently come into their own and Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Grace Slick, and Joni Mitchell led the way in the sixties. Now there's Carole King, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bonny Raitt, and Maria Muldaur, the "Rock Women" celebrated in Time's cover story last December. Joni Mitchell is still queen though, and for some men she is to rock what Beatrice was to Dante, with a voice like sweet molasses lifting them into a gossamer fantasy world of free-ee lu-huh-huv. According to Time, "She is the rural neophyte waiting in a subway...
...this, friends and aides are convinced that Kennedy does not want the nomination, at least not next year. Wife Joan, 38, continues to suffer from emotional problems. Teddy Jr., 13, has adjusted manfully to the amputation of his lower right leg in 1973 to arrest bone cancer; he continues to undergo treatment. Kennedy also must go on serving as surrogate father to Ethel Kennedy's eleven children. Above all, if Teddy were a candidate, the many unanswered questions about Chappaquiddick would be reopened. But if he were nominated at the last minute, there would be much less time...
...debating club or be a tackle." So to keep an impoverished San Francisco school system from canceling this year's athletic program for lack of money, Graham staged one of the biggest rock concerts since the glory years of Haight-Ashbury. Along with Varsity Stars Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Santana, even Marlon Brando showed up at Kezar Stadium to plead for contributions. Last week, just before the musicale got under way, however, Bay Area newspapers disclosed that the board of education had suddenly uncovered $2.1 million in extra funds. Graham called the concert...
...Joan Bruce, manager of benefit administration, said yesterday that the plan's objective was to provide employees, both faculty and staff who had served more than 25 years, with pensions between 70 and 80 per cent of their final take-home...