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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SP/4) EDWARD D. LEE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...show that they can compete on an equal basis with big people in today's world and do not have to fall back upon the circus for a livelihood. Robert Spector, last week's convention chairman, is a Ph.D. working on chemistry patents for Du Pont. Lee Kitchens, an electronics engineer for Texas Instruments and the outgoing Little People's president, literally soared into town, flying his own plane from Richardson, Texas. Since he stands only 4 ft. 1 in., the rudder pedals on his Piper Tri-Pacer have been built up about nine inches to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: The Little People | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Financed by a group of New Orleans businessmen, he set to work. One assistant, Jim Alcock, concentrated on the legalities of the case; a second, Andy ("Moo") Sciambra, handled the field work. After months of investigation, Garrison finally announced that he had "solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: District Attorneys: Jolly Green Giant in Wonderland | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...Hour Shifts. On July 3, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which embraces half the U.S.'s. 14,500 controllers and hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Slow Flights to Nowhere | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...horse race, having made up his mind to recoup his fortune in the U.S. if he lost. Later he wrote: "The dear, handsome little horse ran most gamely, but in the last hundred yards tired under the weight and just failed to get home. So America was under the lee, and I felt quite excited and bucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empire Bungler | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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