Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Prince Stanislas ("Stash") Radziwill, 61, former husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' younger sister Lee; of an apparent heart attack; in Essex, England. A British citizen who claimed descent from Polish kings, Radziwill fled his native land during World War II when the Soviets imprisoned or killed several members of his family. The toothbrush-mustached prince, a naturalized British subject since 1951, became a highly successful London realtor. He met Lee Bouvier Canfield in 1957. After divorcing their respective mates, they were married in 1959, and one year later Radziwill campaigned in U.S. Polish communities for his brother...
...Lee, 37. He has a degree in chemical engineering, but he could not find engineering work at home. He went to Germany and labored in a coal mine, then came to the U.S. in 1968. He had $50. He found a job as a welder, earned $5 an hour, and saved almost...
...years, Lee had amassed $8,000. He went to a bank and, with some difficulty, borrowed another $8,000. With that, he bought the Olympic Market, a grocery store in the heart of Los Angeles' Koreatown. Two previous owners had failed in the store, but Lee got up every morning at 2 a.m. to go to market for his supplies, regularly worked an 18-hour day, began to make profits. He bought some adjoining property for a parking lot, made more profits, then bought a restaurant. It had been a dry-cleaning store, but Lee transformed it with Korean paintings...
...dreamed that if I came to this country, I could make enough money to live on," says Lee, who now has a Korean wife and two children, "but I never dreamed of this much success. I expected little freedom for jobs or work in America, but that is not the way it is. We have freedom to work hard and do well here. If I work one hour, I get one hour's profit from it. It's not that way in other countries...
...biggest birthday cake ever made-RWB icing and five stories high -will be open for gazing July 3 at Philadelphia's Memorial Hall, and later for grazing (200,000 Sara Lee servings...