Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most liberal state, and Chapel Hill has long had an envied reputation as one of its most liberal towns. Home of the University of North Carolina, it was once called by Editor-Publisher Mark Ethridge "the capital of the Southern mind." Last week Chapel Hill chose Howard Nathaniel Lee, 34, a Negro, to be its next mayor-by 2,567 votes out of a record 4,734 cast. Lee is the eleventh black mayor in the South, but the first to be elected in a predominantly white Southern community. Said former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a congratulatory telegram: "This...
...Lee is the son of a Georgia sharecropper, a child of the Depression who was twice a high school dropout. He eventually went to Georgia's Fort Valley State College, worked as a probation officer in. Savannah, and then moved to Chapel Hill in 1964 as a graduate student in social work. Lee's strenuous campaign centered on the contention that Chapel Hill, whose voting population is less than 10% Negro, was failing to meet the needs of its people in public transportation, recreation, city planning and housing...
...Jack Barnaby's squad had won 7 consecutive Ivy titles, 24 straight team matches, and 60 of 63 individual matches that winter before losing to the Quakers and their strange balls, 5-4. The loss gave Penn the league championship ahead of the Crimson. You could almost hear Dickie Lee saying, "Strange things happen in this world." Barnaby said that seeing Penn so happy almost took he sting out of the defeat. Coaches have compassion...
Until just a few years ago, when rising social consciousness focused attention on the inequities and inefficiencies of the welfare system, there was no such thing as welfare law. "The welfare system existed for 30 years without scrutiny or challenge," says Lee Albert, 32, the center's kinetic director...
...four-man presidential task force headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew hopes to answer these questions in a report that is scheduled to be issued on Sept. 1. Lee DuBridge, President Nixon's science adviser and a member of the group,* has promised a "balanced program." What that means is not certain, but for their part, NASA officials have let it be known that they will be quite content to settle for some sort of balance between the practical and the visionary. Last week, in a report from its own advisory committee on goals...