Word: getting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined not to let Lewin get away with his activities. The chief of the National Bureau of Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing in currency, 2) running illegal gambling, 3) harboring a Chinese wanted for murder, 4) "corrupting public officials and frustrating the present administration's efforts to eliminate graft and corruption in government." On the strength of these charges, Lukban got a warrant issued for Lewin's arrest...
Fortnight ago, as Lewin lolled in his penthouse in natty dark blue sports shirt and slacks, NBI agents burst in to haul him off to jail. He thought he could get out on bail easily-"Goddamit," roared Lewin through the cell door, "don't let me sleep here tonight"-but Lukban saw to it that Lewin spent the night in his cell. Next morning, as the fur began to fly. Garcia's Secretary of Justice Alejo Mabanag announced that NBI Chief Lukban would be fired "for the good of the service," and Lewin, free on bail, sped away...
...question in everyone's mind was what President Garcia would do. Lewin's friends in high places had saved him before. But Garcia was still smarting from last month's election defeat (TIME, Nov. 23), in which charges of corruption figured heavily. Would Lewin get off, or would he be deported to show how untrue all the charges of scandal in government were? Awaiting a hearing next week, Lewin sat in his penthouse and complained, "I'm just the little guy being persecuted...
...titles, there seems to be no stopping Kwame Nkrumah, 50. Last week the Accra Evening News, one of the Prime Minister's more effusive admirers (it manages to run one or more pictures of him almost every day), announced that next March the people of Ghana would get a chance to decide two questions: 1) whether their country should be a "full-fledged republic" no longer recognizing Elizabeth II as Queen of Ghana, 2) whether they approve of Nkrumah as first President for seven years. To the Evening News, there was only...
...contracts give YPF all the oil and, upon expiration in 20-30 years, the wells themselves. To come in on such terms, the companies demanded and got a fast payoff. For getting YPF's oil out of the ground and to the wellhead, the Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades group, investing $100 million, will get 70% of the world oil price until its investment is amortized. 15-20% after that. Five other big companies (Pan American International, Esso, Shell, Union Oil of California, Tennessee...