Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whitewashed, or covered up a case as sensitive as that, what have they done with others?" This same cadre of officials, for example, failed last year to find the bureau man who, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, ordered a Dallas agent to destroy a note written by Lee Harvey Oswald before the killing...
...performance on the stand affected them most. "I really believed her, even when she took the Fifth Amendment," said one juror. But the evidence patiently brought out by Prosecutor James L. Browning Jr. led them to believe that Patty was lying, despite the efforts of Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey and his staff. There was the photograph of Patty on the day of her arrest, defiantly flashing the clenched fist signal of the revolutionary. There was the testimony of Zigurd Berzins, the electronics technician who said he saw Patty retrieve two dropped ammunition clips and one or two cartridges...
...Lee Pressman, a secret but active Communist who recommended Hiss for his first Government job, played a major role in defense efforts to discredit Chambers...
...super star likely to put himself on the open market. To add fuel to the fears, Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Andy Messersmith, armed with his December arbitration victory, began entertaining bids last week from at least four teams. Nonetheless, the owners finally "bit the bullet," said American League President Lee MacPhail. At least they chewed on it. Last week in what they called their "final and best offer," they proposed to let present major leaguers play out one-year options on current contracts and become free agents. But each would then be put in a "reentry" pool where only eight...
...future contracts have a "seven and one" clause that would allow seven-year veterans to demand they be traded or permitted to enter the free-agent pool following the option year. "The nice thing about this," joked Chub Feeney, MacPhail's opposite in the National League, "is that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit on bidding still left the players with less than the wide-open auction they...