Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the world have depressed farm prices. The Government estimates that net farm income this year will be $20 billion, down a painful 33% from the alltime high in 1973. The average farm family will earn only $5,300 this year, excluding off-the-farm income. As Washington Rancher Lee McGuire says, "Some farmers are absolutely flat-ass broke." Among the flattest are young farmers who bought their land and machinery in the early 1970s when prices were high and saddled themselves with heavy mortgages...
...public last week following freedom-of-information lawsuits (see following story); the other half will come out next month. While the avalanche of paper will not sweep away all the doubts, mysteries and conspiracy theories, it leaves very much intact the verdict reached by the Warren Commission in 1964: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, murdered Kennedy...
...reported seeing Oswald and Ruby together in Michigan (neither was ever in the state). The bureau spent weeks trying to trace a bad check Oswald was supposed to have cashed in a bar in Pflugerville, Texas, and months tracking the origins of graffiti discovered in a boxcar reading LEE OSWALD-FUTURE MAN OF DESTINY, APRIL 4, 1963 (it turned out a railway workman had scribbled the words as a post-assassination prank...
...Sherr-lee Mah-klen, Sherr-lee Mah-klen," gasped the Russian visitor, recognizing the smiling redhead in the lobby of the Havana Riviera hotel. It was indeed Shirley MacLaine, autographing napkins for guests and talking up her new film, The Turning Point. Would she have a chance to meet Fidel Castro? "Oh, I'll see him at the Cuban premiere of my picture -the Premier at the premiere, I guess-tomorrow night. That's at the Carlos Marx theater." As it happened, Fidel did not catch the flick but caught the star, inviting her to the Palace...
...Reggie Jackson and other proud bearers of high IQs, they can still seek gratification in several exclusive societies. The international Mensa society accepts only applicants who can prove they scored in the top 2% on any standard IQ test (among its 32,000 fellows: Isaac Asimov and F. Lee Bailey). The International Society for Philosophical Enquiry is even more select: its members, who now number more than 100, must rank in the 99.9 percentile...