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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elaine Madigan--fortyish, two kids, a house on the outskirts of Nashua, N.H.--likes what she hears. She's sitting in her neighbor's living room, drinking coffee at 8 p.m. on a Sunday night and listening to Joan Kennedy talk about the campaign. Tomorrow, Elaine will pack the kids off to school and vote for Ted Kennedy. Kennedy, she says, has "all the leadership qualities that Jimmy Carter lacks." She is worried about heating her home this winter and about her kids being sent off to fight in the Persian Gulf. She is fed up with talk from...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Those Tough Kennedy Battles | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Joel Dubowik of Nashua standing in the same room as Elaine Madigan, listening to Joan Kennedy speak. Joel thinks that Ted Kennedy has done some pretty good things in the Senate. He likes the way Kennedy stands on foreign policy and energy issues. He doesn't think that Chappaquiddick can be held against the candidate...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Those Tough Kennedy Battles | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Folk Singer Joan Baez sang Oh Freedom. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin led a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome. Elie Wiesel, author of many books on the Holocaust, recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Actress Liv Ullmann gave a pint of blood for Cambodian refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The Fancies and the Fact | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Sunday morning, the Crimson had to face the inevitable. The Tigers, led by nationally ranked Joan Maguire, Nancy Gengler and Kris Kinney, proved too much for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Defeat Racquetwomen | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...teachers took their action only after enduring four delayed paydays, including a payless Christmas recess. Joan Morgan, 35, a first-grade teacher, put it succinctly: "I'm not going back until they pay me all my money." Early in the week that prospect seemed dim. On a local television show, the mayor, the president of the school board, the city's top financial adviser, the head of the teachers' union and a key city councilman-all of whom must cooperate to lead the school system out of financial chaos-engaged in a shouting match punctuated with name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cold Shutdown | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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