Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 25 hours before the Commission (longest appearance of any witness), Marina Oswald spoke mostly through a Russian interpreter, haltingly told what it was like to live with Lee Harvey Oswald. Excerpts: "He said that after 20 years he would be prime minister. I think that he had a sick imagination-at least at that time I already considered him to be not quite normal-not always, but at times. He was very much interested, exceedingly so, in autobiographical works of outstanding statesmen of the United States and others. I think that he compared himself to these people whose...
Antennas & Thatch. Last week, while natives sang and guests drank a toast in kava (a paralyzing concoction of powdered pepper root and water), Idaho-born Governor H. Rex Lee dedicated an educational TV network that in two months of operation has transformed the islands. The net centers on a big (40,000 watts) transmitter, lifted to the top of 1,600-ft. Mt. Alava by a new, mile-long cable tramway that sways giddily over .Pago Pago Harbor...
...Lee, a farm specialist, arrived in Pago Pago in 1961 to find the territory's schooling in a mess. Most of the 300 teachers had educations equivalent only to a Stateside fifth grade. Teaching for the 5,500 pupils was supposed to be in English, "but the teacher's own English was unintelligible. It was merely a case of the blind leading the blind." With an assist from Ohio's Democratic Representative Michael J. Kirwan (whose son John is assistant director of the U.S. Department of Interior office responsible for overseeing American Samoa), Lee wangled...
Adult Education. "Our aim," says Lee, "is an education system that will allow a Samoan student to compete on equal terms in mainland colleges." As a dividend, the new schools, designed in Samoa's traditional open-sided fale style, are becoming nighttime community centers with television programs to combat adult illiteracy and improve public health, farming and self-government. And with 275 million children in the world getting no formal instruction, the ETV project in American Samoa has drawn the attention of education officials from half a dozen nations in Asia and Africa...
...Lee Fletcher, 28 years old and the sole veternarian in Windsor, Vermont, and Tom Davis, age 27, and the president of a jumber company are not typical of the young men living in the ski country around the Twin State Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire. Both are young, maried, college graduates, ambitious-and willing to take a financial risk...