Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guard assumed they were departing visitors. But on the next day the fugitives' car had a flat tire. Marine Sergeant John F. Lyons, 24, heading from his home in Yuma, Ariz., to visit relatives in Nebraska, stopped to help. Lyons, his wife Donnelda, 24, and their 22-month-old son Christopher were all shot to death. A niece of the Lyons, Teresa Tyson, 16 (no kin to the Tisons), was wounded in the hip and was later found in the desert, having bled to death...
...Florida in 1622 carrying 47 tons of gold and silver. Since then, he and his company have been diving for the treasure, which could be worth as much as $600 million. The mission's cost so far: $5 million and four lives, including that of Fisher's son...
...leaving his wife and infant son Peter behind, Kenyatta returned to Kenya to work for African self-rule. He soon emerged as the strongest of the colony's black political leaders, and within a few years was caught up in the controversy over the Mau Mau. After a series of terrorist murders in 1952, the colonial government ordered his arrest and charged him with being the mastermind behind the Mau Mau organization. He was convicted in a sort of political show trial and sent off to nine years of detention and restriction...
Warned that students were bound to get lower grades at Rochester than they did in high school, one worried mother asked who would help her son through the trauma of his first C. In answer, a panel of about 15 deans and assistants outlined a variety of academic, social and psychological counseling programs. Sighed another relieved mother, "They really understand kids here. "And parents...
...delight that all his doctors and nurses seemed to want to talk about was black holes. The White House also recognizes the gravity of black holes. Upon reading a news article about them one morning, President Carter promptly asked his science adviser, Frank Press, for his thoughts. Press, whose son William happened to have done research on black holes, sheepishly confessed ignorance, explaining that he could not get through the paper so early...