Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kill a Mockingbird. The Pulitzer Prize novel by Harper Lee has been made into an engaging movie that exchanges some of the novel's cuteness for a charm of its own-some of it supplied by the hero (Gregory Peck), most of it by three gumptious young 'uns (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna...
...Congress moved toward bestowing honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill, someone decided that it was time to repatriate Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Though pardoned under a post-Civil War proclamation by President Andrew Johnson, Lee was, in effect, a second-class citizen, excluded by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1868) from holding any public office, civil or military. Now Freshman Representative James H. Quillen, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced a House bill posthumously restoring full rights to the Southern hero in recognition of his "courage and integrity...
...Beverly Hills, spends most of her between-class hours walking alone through the woods, her evenings listening to her 1,000-record collection or playing chess with a friend. "Yvette has this kind of relationship with so many marvelous men," says Byron. "Like Glenn Ford. And Charles Boyer and Lee Cobb, who decided she was the best chess player they'd ever seen...
Playing Camille's lover, John Stride indulges in so much whinnying, snorting and foot pawing that it is not clear whether he is suffering from the onset of amour or the opening of Aqueduct. As for Susan Strasberg, daughter of Actors Studio Artistic Director Lee Strasberg, it is surely a father's duty to tell her. As the phthisical Marguerite Gautier, only a cough distinguishes her from the Chatty Cathy doll...
That is "a philosophy of totalitarianism utterly foreign to our American precepts," argued Lee Hills, executive editor of the five-paper Knight chain. Said Publisher Gene Robb of the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union: "A government can successfully lie no more than once to its people. Thereafter, everything it says and does becomes suspect." Roughest of all was the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff, who suggested that veteran Newsman Sylvester, 61 (37 years with the Newark News), ought to resign...