Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straw mat and a slender wine glass had been put out on the table for Kennedy, and now he set another place for his guest. A call came from his son Patrick, 11. Kennedy bellowed into the phone after he listened to the boy tell about catching a manta ray that day. He lighted some candles, opened a bottle of white wine, and began tasting his cooking. "Yes, I would like to be President," he said frankly. "Yes, I feel I can do the job. But this isn't the time...
Pressure has mounted for years from black leaders who want a new trial for James Earl Ray, the petty gunman and thief serving a 99-year prison sentence for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. a decade ago. Last week, after meeting with Ray for four hours inside Tennessee's Brushy Mountain State Prison, Chicago Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson told reporters: "I do not believe he killed Dr. King. I believe Ray was coerced into pleading guilty to the murder...
When King was shot, Jackson was standing near him outside a second-floor room of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Jackson visited Ray last week in response to one of a series of letters that the prisoner has been mailing to black leaders. In them, Ray insists he did not kill King and has evidence that "will be helpful in establishing that there was a conspiracy" behind the murder...
Nellie Taylor Ross, the first female governor of an American state, was elected in Wyoming when her husband died a month before the 1924 election. Fifty-four years later there are only two women holding that office --Connecticut's Ella Grasso and Washington's fireball, Dixie Lee Ray. A Cambridge woman hopes to join the lonely twosome this fall by challenging incumbent Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for the Massachusetts governorship. That woman is Barbara Ackermann...
...Senior Cyclers, who find new romance on the road. They included the Lapels, Ray, 68, and Hazel, 67, from Vail, Iowa, who took turns tromping a tricycle...