Word: ella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dixy Lee Ray, 62, who was the first woman to head the Atomic Energy Commission, became the second woman in U.S. political history to win a Statehouse without having a husband who preceded her (the other is Connecticut's Ella Grasso).* Democrat Ray edged out her Republican opponent, County Executive John Spellman, 49, by about 125,000 votes...
...maverick who votes his conscience despite party labels has enhanced his chances for re-election over a formidable Democratic opponent, Gloria Schaffer. Schaffer, Connecticut's secretary of state, is considered handicapped in her bid for the Senate by the presence of one woman already holding statewide office, Democratic Governor Ella Grasso. Weicker's acceptability to liberals should undercut Schaffer's base of support, and his unique appeal to both the right and the left should insure his return to the Senate...
Heeding the advice of health officials, Charles Gabig, 71, a retired telephone engineer, and two housewives, Mrs. Julia Bucci, 75, and Mrs. Ella Michael, 74, last week joined hundreds of other elderly people in line for swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed...
...lived in Michigan's second city in almost 28 years. Some old-timers remember him as the towheaded youngster who played center on the South High football team. Others recall him as the industrious fellow earning $2 a week plus lunches waiting on tables during the Depression. Mrs. Ella Koeze Weed, an early supporter of Ford's, recalls his boldness; he dared to importune her with the risque wolf whistle. "I used to think, 'Well, that big kid in the dirty coveralls has a nerve-whistling at me like that...
...inevitably dubbed the "Catholic Olympics." There were Masses for children and the physically handicapped, blacks and Ruthenians, even a military Mass unwittingly scheduled on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing-so many Masses that the congress's congregations used 1,700,000 Communion wafers. Dave Brubeck and Ella Fitzgerald offered religious jazz, the Dance Theater of Harlem turned to religious choreography, and Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace addressed a "family life" conference...