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Word: wife (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want is to be a normal famly. Having our own baby is our dearest wish." That sentiment has surely been voiced by many an expectant parent, and Gilbert John Brown, 38, a British truck driver, is no exception. His wife Lesley, 30, is scheduled to give birth shortly. All that seems commonplace. But the birth of the Browns' baby may well be the most sensational obstetrical event since the birth of the Dionne quintuplets in 1934. Reason: the child will be the world's first baby conceived in a test tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Test-Tube Baby | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

SEPARATED. Pelé, 37, Brazilian soccer hero, from his wife Rose, 33, after twelve years of marriage, three children. Various commitments, such as running soccer camps and making TV commercials, are keeping the retired Cosmos star on the road. Said Pelé "I have been traveling for 22 years. Rose says it has to stop, but I cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 24, 1978 | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...Dyan Cannon. But after a four-year absence, she is reveling in the kind of role she plays best: a particularly tart (and tartish) genus of smart dumb blonde. Besides appearing in Panther, she nearly steals Warren Beatty's box-office smash Heaven Can Wait, playing the spacy wife who drips diamonds and drops crudities as she plots Beatty's murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dyan for Some Laughs | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Although Cannon has made several sexpotboilers, she has also given some impressive performances. She received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1969 of the well-stacked wife who turns uptight when her husband (Elliott Gould) and friends start to dabble in swinging sex. In The Last of Sheila (1973), she did a fine, funny job as a bitchy Hollywood talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dyan for Some Laughs | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...grueling months to play out, is, of all things, a Soviet defector: Victor Korchnoi, 47, a tempestuous, irritable man who narrowly lost to Karpov in a 1974 Moscow match. He blamed his defeat on harassment by Soviet officialdom, and later sought asylum in The Netherlands, leaving behind a wife and child. (He eventually moved to West Germany, then Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pawns and Politics in Baguio City | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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