Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ryan, who decided to find out what was happening in Jonestown by going there. Ryan wrote Jones that some of his constituents had "expressed anxiety" about their relatives in the colony. Back came a testy letter, not from Jones but from controversial Attorney Mark Lane, who has built a career on his theories of conspiracies behind the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Lane charged that members of the Peoples Temple had to flee the U.S. because of "religious persecution" by the Government and implied that Ryan was engaged in a "witch hunt." If this continued...
...career was based on what he wrote...
...Crown's case was taken up by the prosecution's first star witness: Peter Bessell, 57, a former Liberal M.P. and Thorpe confidant. According to Bessell, Thorpe became increasingly obsessed by the prospect of the damage that Scott's revelations could do to his political career; he even threatened to commit suicide if the story came out. First Thorpe suggested that Bessell obtain a visa for Scott, enabling him to move to the U.S. Bessell felt that this would be impossible. With that, Bessell testified, "Mr. Thorpe said, 'Then we have...
...Company Chairman Kenneth Lord Thomson of Fleet, 55, is said to be less sentimentally attached to the papers than was his late father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson, who considered the acquisitions of the Times (est. 1785) and the Sunday Times (est. 1822) to be the pinnacle of his career...
...moon in sprint man Malcolm Cooper. All-American last year, Cooper has begun the season with the kind of fabulous start that characterizes his races--a blazing pool record 21.10 in Saturday's 50-yd. free. Freshman Ron Raikula, who, like Maximoff, capped a brilliant high school All-American career by making the finals at AAU nationals this year, matched Cooper's record with one of his own in the 200-yd. backstroke (1:53.77). Sophomore backstroke Geoff Seelen, and top-notch divers Steve Schramm and Jamie Greacen further highlight this seemingly endless list of talent. Only the loss...