Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...route. It squeaks through a spectacular 50-second bombing raid in which a Nazi armored train is pulverized-a scene achieved with 140 charges of dynamite, nine cameras, several dozen expendable engines and boxcars purchased from French National Railroads, and considerable ingenuity on the part of Special Effects Ace Lee Zavitz (who arranged the burning of Atlanta in 1939's Gone With the Wind). Another stunning pile-up is followed by regularly scheduled derailments, all studied with a fond eye for the mechanics of sabotage. At last, face to face beside a clutter of wooden crates and human bodies...
...really the best we've done in the eight years we've been going to the tournament," said Harvard freshman coach Johnny Lee, who accompanied his two wrestlers to West Point. "I think they did as well as they possibly could...
...Lee said that he thought Sutter, who was three times high school champion of New York State, was the best wrestler in the tournament. Bloomsberg, a small college in Pennsylvania, entered six men in the Easterns; two besides Sutter won championships...
...fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order sales of firearms to individuals (Lee Harvey Oswald got his assassination weapon through a mail-order house) and restrict the importation of surplus military weapons. - Provide for increased training of local officers by federal law-enforcement agencies and finance research on improved justice and law enforcement on the local level. Federal grants for such purposes would be authorized...
When President Kennedy was assassinated, it came as a considerable surprise to most Americans that killing a U.S. President is not a federal crime. It was because of this that Lee Harvey Oswald was handed into the clumsy clutches of the Dallas police force, which had legal jurisdiction, with disastrous results. The Warren Commission was appalled by the legal situation, wrote in its report: "It is anomalous that Congress has legislated in other ways touching upon the safety of the Chief Executive or other Federal officers without making an attack on the President a crime...