Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sporting the East's most impressive record, 18-1-1, should have little trouble with inconsistent Providence (8-7- Colby, with an 18-3-3 mark and Ron Ryan, the nation's leading scorer this year with 100 points, is favored over R.P.I. (15-6). St. Lawrence (14-6-1) and B.C. (15-11-1) should go down to the wire in the most evenly matched of all the firstround clashes...
From descriptions by Valerie and a witness who remembered seeing an erratic driver the morning after the murder, police were able to construct likenesses of the murderer from an Identi-Kit.* Among the suspects identified was a man named James Ryan. Checking this lead, Scotland Yard found a traveling salesman in Ireland who reported that he had written some postcards to England for a near illiterate acquaintance named Jimmy Ryan. One card in particular had seemed odd; it was addressed to a Mrs. Mary Hanratty, and it began: "Dear...
From Scotland Yard's records came the file on James Hanratty, alias Jimmy Ryan. Mentally retarded from the age of four as a result of a World War II bomb blast, Hanratty had undergone brain surgery and electric-shock treatments, been in and out of reform school and prison. Out went the alarm to pick him up. One night in mid-October, police in the English coastal town of Blackpool on the Irish Sea nabbed him on a routine check of teen-age joints. Hanratty protested his innocence, but from a police line-up paraded before her hospital...
...satellites? Rising to champion private industry, Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr has introduced a bill that would give ownership to a consortium of established U.S. communications companies, presumably led by such titans as A.T. & T. and RCA. In the House, New York Democrat William Fitts Ryan has introduced a bill calling for the creation of a TVA in space...
...Edgefield County, S.C., close by the Georgia line, Strom (rhymes with plum) Thurmond is the grandson of a Confederate corporal, the son of a judge and local Democratic leader. His boyhood hero was a friend of his father's: South Carolina's Governor and later Senator Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, one of the most unabashed racists in Southern history. Strom graduated from Clemson College, taught a high school course in agriculture for a while, studied law at night in his father's office, finally ran for curcuit court judge...