Word: lees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month-old autonomous state of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's puritanical new administration, after banning pinball games and jukebox parlors, last week set out to end polygyny (except among Moslems) and to abolish the widespread local Chinese practice of concubinage...
...plot: a bartender is murdered by an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara), who tells the police he committed the crime because the bartender had beaten and raped his wife (Lee Remick). The wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports her account of the rape. But the medical examiner finds no physical evidence that the woman was violated. What's more, the lieutenant's wife is a well-known tramp about camp. Obviously, the prosecution reasons, she had been a willing partner in whatever happened with the bartender...
...parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London School of Economics, and Singapore's new Communist-leaning Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is a Cambridge honors graduate, which Britons feel makes him easier to reason with. Currently, British universities have some 18,000 Commonwealth students. The old school tie is found in every corner of the Commonwealth. Says Canada's Ambassador to the U.N. Charles Ritchie: "We appreciate the same...
...three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined anti-imperialist, Cantabrigian Lee went to work right away on what he thought were imperialism's decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll...
...quietly impressive ceremony last week, Julius Adams Stratton, 58, was formally installed as eleventh president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meaning of the event was hinted at by one of the several important inaugural guests, President Lee A. DuBridge of California Institute of Technology, who warmly called rival M.I.T. "the leading college of science and engineering in the world...