Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presiding over the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Judge William A. Morrison reached Case No. 37,900. "Jack Rubenstein," he intoned, "alias Jack Ruby, from Dallas. Reversed and remanded with directions." Thus the court last week struck down the verdict that in 1964 had sentenced Lee Harvey Oswald's killer to death. Their unanimous decision could mean freedom for Ruby within a few months...
...With or Without Roses (Doubleday; $3.95), a collection of 63 of her verses, Mrs. Louchheim shows the influence of her favorite portrait poets, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters, but displays a sharp, sometimes biting, always knowing wit that is all her own. Her subjects, readers will find, are anonymous, but nowhere is she more on target than in "The Bureaucrat...
...Lee Daniels, a Roxbury resident who attends Boston Latin and who took courses at the Urban School this summer, said that although most of the teachers were white, "it didn't bother me there; it's different from the Boston School System. It doesn't seem to matter whether your teacher is black or white. They're interested in teaching you something," Daniels said. It is also good to get out of Roxbury and see what other places are like, Daniels, who is applying to Harvard, added...
...playwright set out to write a comedy about the social types in a changing Russia, but his characters, while absurd in their inflexibility, are also elegiac in their ineffectuality. Jessica Tandy plays an aristocratic Ranevskaya, as flowery as her beloved orchard and just as fruitless. As the arriviste, Lee Richardson is believably ambivalent as he reluctantly reaps triumph over his former employers. Hume Cronyn, however, sounds too nasally shrewd to be the bumbling clerk...
...enough to take a 21-month trip abroad - including a visit to the U.S. that he hardly would have considered making a few months ago. Having bitterly broken away from Malaysia a year ago and first set out on a violently anti-American, pro-Peking trajectory, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, himself a Chinese, has lately warmed up to Malaysia and now openly praises America's role in Viet Nam. Faced by the xenophobic madness of the Red Guards, whose actions sent a cold shiver running through Asia, Japan is beginning to contemplate a future in which Tokyo...