Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VINCENT VAN GOGH: A SELF-PORTRAIT (Caedmon). Credit for this vivid auto-analysis must go first to Van Gogh for writing such searching, searing letters to his brother Theo, second to Lou Hazam for an artful job of editing, third to Lee J. Cobb for reading life into the result...
...week work. It was off to Baltimore for a game with the Chicago White Sox, then to Minnesota for the series with the Twins and out to Los Angeles for the games with the Angels. He talked to Hank Bauer and the birds, as well as Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, in the dugout, on buses, planes and in dressing rooms. And in the end he was showing symptoms of becoming an Oriole fanatic...
American Samoa is a U.S. territory 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii. Like other offshore outposts, including Guam and the Virgin Islands, it is run by the Interior Department and has a U.S.-appointed Governor- H. Rex Lee, an Iowa-born farm economist. In light of its status, how far does the U.S. Constitution cover American Samoa...
...Puka (Fat) Bill, was arrested without a warrant for threatening to shoot the Governor. The alleged threat had been made at a private party eleven days before. Held incommunicado for 48 hours, he was charged with violating American Samoa's sweeping civil rights law by "intimidating" Governor Lee in "the free exercise or enjoyment of his constitutional right to life, liberty or property." Possible penalty: three years in jail, a $1,500 fine or both...
...enough for Samoa's Chief Judge Arthur Morrow, 71, former dean of Iowa's Drake University Law School. Amazing the lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...