Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan last week, long before anyone ate a turkey, a giant spruce tree from New Jersey was raised over the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink. The Christmas season was already under way. In the Northern California lumber town of Burney, Don Whitman, 67, closed down his barbershop and his wife Edna locked her antique shop, and the two of them renewed a family tradition: cutting Christmas trees. "It's a happiness business," says Mrs. Whitman. "I imagine all the excitement and joy connected with every Christmas tree I cut." By the time they are through, they will have...
Last week, after five years of a far from stable marriage, Chip Carter, 28, the President's second son, and his wife, Caron, 27, separated. Caron went back to her parents in Hawkinsville, Ga., with their 20-month-old son James Earl Carter IV. Chip remained at the White House, where the couple had been living...
...clearly emerged as China's strongman, overshadowing Mao's titular successor as Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng. Teng has given supreme priority to reversing the disruptive effects of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which was zealously pursued for more than ten years by Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, and her radical colleagues. Twice toppled from power by the radicals, in 1966 and 1976, Teng has stepped from the political shadows, not only to supervise the disgracing of Chiang's Gang of Four, but to see his pragmatic goals adopted as the party...
...says 'Pat' or 'Madame Secretary.' " Schlesinger was similarly given to irritating Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter of the late Carolyn Hagner Shaw, who presided over it for 34 years. Carolyn Hagner Shaw was a subtle and funny arbiter who could savor the preposterous in Washington's manners. Once a woman addressed an urgent...
Tunney retired undefeated, the only modern heavyweight champion besides Rocky Marciano smart enough to quit at the top, and settled into a successful business career. He lived quietly with his wife Polly Lauder and four children in Greenwich, Conn. In 1971 the fighter's son, John, became U.S. Senator from California. As time went by, Tunney came to be friends with Dempsey. The old foes were thought of together, two men joined by their past. When Tunney's death was reported, Dempsey's wife Deanna said of her ailing husband, "He is taking it very badly. You must remember Gene...