Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOSCOW--Senate minority leader Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) and five other Republican senators arrived in the Soviet Union yesterday for a series of high-level meetings with Soviet officials on the strategic arms limitation talks and other issues...
...MEMPHIS, Tenn.--Inflation will drive Democrats from office if they fail to deal with it, Vice President Walter F. Mondale said yesterday in an attempt to convince a meeting of Democrats to support the Carter administration's budget policies...
...times to dictate his family tales. Within six weeks he piled up more than 800 pages of transcript. From this raw material, Writer Ernest Kinoy and Producer Stan Margulies constructed a plot that chronicles Haley's family from 1882 to 1965. Roots 2 opens in Henning, Tenn., where Chicken George settled the family at the end of Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots 2 will encompass the Reconstruction, two world wars, the growth of urban black...
DIED. Maybelle Carter, 69, matriarch of country music's Carter family; of Parkinson's disease; in Madison, Tenn. Formed in 1927, the Carter Family trio achieved lasting success by recording such traditional folk songs as Wildwood Flower and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, with member Maybelle becoming celebrated for her alto voice as well as her unique guitar and autoharp licks. When the group disbanded in 1943, Carter started out anew with her three daughters as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and later toured extensively with Daughter June and her husband Singer Johnny Cash...
MARRIED. James Earl Ray, 50, Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, who is serving a 99-year jail term; and Anna Sandhu, 31, freelance courtroom artist; he for the first time, she for the second time; in Brushy Mountain state prison, at Petros, Tenn. Tennessee does not permit conjugal visits, a situation Sandhu described as "terrible...