Word: lees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Odds? In the long sag of peace, this leathery bantam spoiled for a mix. Everything Claire Lee Chennault did, he did belligerently. With two flying sergeants, he barnstormed the land in three precisely flown P12 pursuit planes - the famed "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze" of the air shows. What he wanted to prove was that precise and darting aggression spelled air power, but nobody cared. And when his noncommissioned wingmen flunked their tests for commissions, his gorge rose hot as a Louisiana pepper, and he resigned his own commission, saying: "I'm glad to get out. They...
...some types of cases the operations have now been simplified, and they are being done in more and more hospitals, many in smaller cities. Example: Karen Lee Gordon, from Pana, Ill., went to St. Mary's Hospital in nearby Decatur (est. pop. 75,000) for five operations to correct a complicated no-gullet anomaly. Last week, out of the hospital in time for her fifth birthday, she was eating normally, tasting and swallowing food, for the first time in her life. She even had sausage for breakfast...
...widely prevalent and intellectually debilitating relativism" of American life, writes Presbyterian William Lee Miller, Yale Divinity School professor, religion is being spiritually sapped. For Americans religion is apt to be "the belief in believing, the faith in faith"-exemplified by the radio program called This I Believe, which had "plenty of 'believe' and quite a bit of 'I' but not very much of 'this.' " There is an inclination to hold almost all positions to be equally valuable and true...
Executives averaged 50½ years old, but fewer of them had high blood pressure (of the simple type, apparently with no other disease) than the nonexecutive males of the same age: 6.1% as against 7.5%. Cornell Medical College's Dr. Richard E. Lee and New York University's Dr. Ralph F. Schneider found that high blood pressure with generalized artery disease followed the same pattern-2.2% of executives had it, as compared with 3.4% of age-matched male subordinates. So did the combination of high blood pressure with heart-and-artery disease: 2.8% compared with 3.7% of subordinates...
...Lee (an assistant professor) and Dr. Schneider (an associate professor)-both junior-executive types-offered several halfhearted explanations: maybe nothing succeeds like good health, or maybe executives are smarter and have learned the value of "escape valves" such as hobbies, or perhaps the most important thing about stress is the individual's reaction to it. Where the researchers missed the important point was in failing to note that a man of 50 who is still in a subordinate position is likely to suffer from inferiority feelings, a sense of injustice and frustration, whereas the top executive's very...