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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rigid Control. In a sense, both Betty Ford and Pat Nixon were veterans. Not so the younger, more fragile blonde who last week sat silently in the Heritage Room of Boston's Parker House and watched her husband bow out of the 1976 presidential contest. Joan Kennedy, demonstrating the rigid control expected of political wives in America -especially Kennedy wives-stayed calm and clear-eyed, her gaze focused on a point near her husband, her hands folded demurely in her lap. She remained all but immobile when her husband said that he would not subject his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Relentless Ordeal of Political Wives | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...bowl, an increasing number are openly expressing discontent and looking for means to change the system that ensnares them in a variety of ways. Some, like Abigail McCarthy or Mieke Tunney or Phyllis Dole, have left their husbands and named politics as the corespondent. Others, like Betty Ford and Joan Kennedy, have sought psychiatric help and owned up to it - something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Occasionally there appears a Cornelia Wallace or a Martha Mitchell who does not hesitate to speak her own mind whatever her husband may think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Relentless Ordeal of Political Wives | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...JOAN KENNEDY: Escaping Anxiety

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Three Women on The Firing Line | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Most Americans could readily sympathize with the Senator's formal explanation. "My primary responsibilities are at home," he said, and they are undeniably heavy. His wife Joan, an out-patient at a West Coast clinic who was at his side during his press conference, has been hospitalized for emotional and other problems. Their son Teddy, who celebrated his 13th birthday last week, is going periodically to a Georgetown hospital for chemotherapy to check the cancer that has already cost him a leg. Kennedy is also a substitute father for the 13 children of his murdered brothers, Jack and Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Kennedy Creates a Free-for-AII | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...Kelly, who also co-founded and directed the Lyric Theater of Chicago and the Performing Arts Foundation in Kansas City, shaped his companies to perform a repertory of unusual, rarely done works and to showcase fresh imported talent. Outrunning the Met, the quick impresario arranged the U.S. debuts of Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Teresa Berganza, and in 1954 brought Manhattan-born Maria Callas back to America. Four years later, in Dallas, she presented him with the definitive Medea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 30, 1974 | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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