Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in-laws have seemed doomed. Kathleen's British husband was killed in combat, and Ethel Kennedy's parents and brother died in plane crashes. What has sustained Rose Kennedy through all this is her Roman Catholic belief and her literal, intense faith in God. She believes that He has a grand design, that people must accept personal tragedy in their lives as part of the eternal mystery...
...Rose Kennedy's birthday on July 22 fell on the same day as Mary Jo's funeral, and the informal family dinner was held a few days later. In the rush of recent publicity, some reports gave her age as 80. She complains that a woman in her position can never keep her age a secret. But she wants the record straight. She is "only...
Divorced. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 46, South African surgeon who in 1967 rose to fame by performing the first successful human heart transplant; by Aletta Gertruida Barnard, 45, a former nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital; on grounds of technical desertion; after 21 years of marriage, two children; in Cape Town, South Africa. Though Barnard obviously enjoyed his celebrity status, his wife was less impressed. "I've got a home to run," she said at one point, "whether we are famous...
...reports. Dr. Shannon Pratt, director of the Portland (Ore.) State University Investment Analysis Center, estimates that the value of his own stocks has dropped 23% since May-a period during which the Dow-Jones industrial average has gone down 15%. He invests largely in over-the-counter stocks, which rose faster than most listed shares during the bull market but dropped more sharply during the current slide. A young stock salesman for a San Francisco brokerage house is so discouraged by his own losses that he says, "I don't think I'll ever buy any stock again...
...cans a week, usually paying more than a dollar a can. Buyers hope to get what STP publicists call the "Racer's Edge," something that is supposed to have helped Mario Andretti roar to the winner's circle on May 30 at Indianapolis. Sales last year rose almost 50%, to $44 million, and profits reached $6 million. For every dollar of sales, the company spends 450 on promotion; that is 180 more than it spends on the can and its contents...