Word: prior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prior to the Globe story, state house sources said it was known Vellucci had a flexible time schedule. Vellucci often boasted he originally received the position after demanding a job from a Democratic governor following his election as a city councilor in the 1950s...
...girls' adolescent escapades while revealing the foundations of the political beliefs that will eventually take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime state spy fiction would envy...
BORN. To Siem Nijssen, 27, Dutch steelworker, and Corry Nijssen, 27, his wife who had been taking hormone treatments prior to conception: sextuplets, four girls and two boys; in Leiden, The Netherlands. Born two months prematurely, the sextuplets were delivered by caesarean section and then placed in an incubator. If they survive they will become the second living set of sextuplets in the world...
...movie is basically a speculation about what might have happened if Oswald had lived to stand trial. The first half dwells prosaically on the accused assassin's marital problems, his sojourn in Russia and his activities just prior to Nov. 22, 1963. Though Star John Pleshette creates an intriguingly neurotic Oswald, the man remains a cryptic figure. The trial itself, which dominates Part Two, is-well -trying, with fictional lawyers (played bombastically by Lome Greene and Ben Gazzara) wrangling endlessly over their case's voluminous ballistics evidence, Perry Mason-style...
Wyatt later appointed William A. Lee, a personnel administrator in the Department of Buildings and Grounds with no prior police experience, as acting chief. The union still has not signed a new contract...