Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal District Judge Lee Ingraham indicated that if Clay failed to reverse his conviction on appeal to higher courts, he would consider reducing sentence to something closer to the average 18 months usually given in such cases. Whatever the final sentence, it appears unlikely that Clay-still indisputably the best heavyweight in the world -will ever again be a championship contender. As he himself once noted: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...
...from the Arab side proved difficult. For days after Egypt expelled U.S. citizens, no transport was available, so Correspondent Roger Stone was interned with 21 other newsmen in a dingy Cairo hotel called the Nile, where life, as he put it, "was a game of Stalag 17." In Beirut, Lee Griggs, reinforced by James Wilde from our Paris bureau, was still able to work, but things were hardly pleasant. In the street, Griggs met an Arab acquaintance walking with a group of other Arabs. The man sidled up to him, mumbling, "I have to do this or my friends...
...American University in Beirut was hit by Molotov cocktails, and Americans were insulted openly in the streets -in many cases for show. In Beirut, cabled TIME Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, "an Arab friend accosted me on the street, mumbled, 'I have to do this or my friends won't respect me,' and spat literally in my face...
...political organizing. Many of these chapters are located in rural areas, away from urban centers of the working and underclasses. "There has always been this split between those who see SDS as primarily a student organization and those who see it as the main party of the Left," says Lee Webb, a past national secretary, "and now it's coming more and more in the open...
...Class was not denied the more traditional routes by which to show its maturity. Coach Dick Harlow culled from it the best Harvard football team in a decade, including Endicott Peabody, Harvard's last All-American, Loren MacKinney, Captain Francis Lee and Charles Ayres. In their most brilliant season, senior year, they upset Dartmouth 7-0 and whipped Yale 14-0. As was customary, many of them were elected representatives to the Student Council...