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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIED. Preston Jones, 43, late-blooming playwright widely hailed in 1976 for A Texas Trilogy, his saga of life in a one-horse West Texas town; following surgery for ulcers; in Dallas. Born in Albuquerque, big, burly Jones spent the last half of his life in Texas, working as a director, ticket taker and lead actor at Paul Baker's Dallas Theater Center, where his wife Mary Sue is second in command. Almost 40 when he finished his three plays set in mythical Bradleyville, Jones was discovered by Tennessee Williams' agent, Audrey Wood, who arranged for a Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...will have all our people out in the streets enforcing the city's parking regulations," city traffic engineer Lauren Preston said yesterday. "There will be no open parking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Battens Down For Followers of Pope | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...Preston said the decision not to allow free parking on the streets, which was made after a series of meetings between Boston and Cambridge police officials, is "an attempt to make sure the streets stay open, especially for emergency vehicles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Battens Down For Followers of Pope | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...Radcliffe lights finish second in the Eastern Sprints in New Preston, Conn., to a powerful Boston University crew, a virtual repeat of the two crews' race earlier in the season...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...seventh-seeded Radcliffe heavies shoot past Princeton in the last 30 strokes of the Eastern Sprints to grab third place behind Yale and Wisconsin in the Super Bowl of women's crew in New Preston, Conn...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

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