Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goal of bringing such unjust registration procedures to national attention, however, King's drive was a success. In this, King was helped considerably by the clumsy antics of Sheriff Clark. Last week the 220-lb. Clark tangled violently along the courthouse waiting line with Mrs. Annie Lee Cooper, a 226-lb. aspiring registrant. Mrs. Cooper twice walloped Clark solidly and appeared to be outpointing him until three burly deputies came to his aid. While the deputies pinned her to the ground, Clark belabored her with his billy club...
They Know More. Caltech President Lee DuBridge believes that "there is no question that today's teen-ager coming to one of the major colleges is better educated and more seriously motivated than ever before." Profiting by a vast improvement in teaching methods, curriculums and equipment, "our children know more about things than we did," says New World Foundation Consultant Frank G. Jennings. Ellsworth Tompkins, executive secretary of the National Education Association's 30,000 secondary school principals, holds that "over the past seven or eight years we have experienced in the schools the most important developments since...
Detroit's hottest automaker, as a result, is Ford Division General Manager Lee Iacocca, 40 (TIME cover, April 17), who not only fathered the Mustang but ran his division so well that Ford in 1964 ate heavily into Chevrolet's predominant share of the middle-priced auto market...
...bought out the New York-based Marine Transport Lines, which is bidding for the Niarchos fleet and is anxious to keep it out of foreign hands. Through a complicated maze of companies, they operate 61 ships under American and Liberian flags. Leading the group is H. (for Harris) Lee White, 52, former Air Force Assistant Secretary, now a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; and two ChineseAmerican businessmen, C. Y. Chen...
...that part of Niarchos' fleet is under long-term charter contracts that pay off in British sterling-and that devaluation would thus cost them dearly. But the deal hinges primarily on the inspection of the fleet. If the vessels are shipshape, a deal that would make the Lee White group the world's biggest independent shipping operator should be closed in 60 to 90 days...