Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judge Joe Eidson was a natural candidate for such a list because he has been presiding over the divorce court in which Davis and his wife are fighting. He originally awarded Priscilla Davis support payments of $2,500 per month, then raised the amount to $5,000. He gave her possession of the Davises' new $6 million mansion and forbade Davis to dispose of any assets (he is head of Kendavis Industries, an international conglomerate founded by his father...
There wasn't much good that anyone could say about Gary Tison except that he inspired a remarkable loyalty from his family. Imprisoned at the age of 25 for holding up a grocery store, he used a meeting with his wife Dorothy as an opportunity to escape from a visiting room in Arizona's Final County Jail...
...casually toward their getaway car that the tower 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...
...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...
...often turned a blind eye to corruption, particularly among the Kikuyu new elite. His own holdings, and those of his fourth wife, Mama Ngina, 48, multiplied enormously. Together they controlled Nairobi's lucrative gambling casino, plus coffee and sisal plantations, manufacturing concerns, downtown office buildings and coastal resorts. His government's reputation was further damaged by the political murders of Planning Minister Tom Mboya, once regarded as a possible successor to Kenyatta, and Kikuyu dissident Politician Josiah M. Kariuki. Both men died under circumstances that have never been fully explained...