Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carters have strikingly similar backgrounds. She, too, was born and grew up in Plains, Ga., where her father was a mechanic. He died when she was 13, and she helped to oversee the three younger children while her mother worked. She married Jimmy when she was 18, and he, at 21, had just emerged from Annapolis to begin a seven-year naval career. When they returned to Plains, she kept the books for his peanut and fertilizer business, while raising four children. Throughout, her inner toughness was being strengthened...
...elephants. But young Thomas Downey, with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents' home in West Islip. Downey is sustained because the people consider him a good...
...Oldham (pop. 227,000) last week was in a state of siege. From as far off as Japan, scores of reporters and cameramen had converged on the town to be on hand for the birth of Baby Brown. Despite pleas from the doctors that the hullabaloo was endangering both mother and child, journalists steadfastly prowled the hospital's precincts. They were seeking any morsel of news. Perhaps a brief word with one of the doctors responsible for the Brown experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes, dodging in and out of the hospital's side...
...potential for "all sorts of bad scenarios." What, for instance, could prevent a scientist from taking a fertilized egg from one woman, who perhaps did not want to carry her own baby, and implanting it in the womb of a surrogate. Who then would be the child's legal mother? Or, in the words of an old joke, "Which one gets the Mother's Day card...
...British doctors until April, when a reporter closing in on the story got them to admit that the birth of a test-tube baby was at hand. Even so, Steptoe and Edwards were reluctant to give any details; they even withheld the patient's name for fear that the mother might not be able to withstand the pressure of all the public prying...