Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Lee, equal employment opportunity officer in the Department of Buildings and Grounds, is investigating whether Sweeney should be fired. Only when he comes to a decision can the rest of Holcomb's hearing proceed under the auspices of the Personnel Office, probably not starting for several weeks...
Covering the civil war in newly independent Angola (see THE WORLD) was a perilous task for TIME'S Salisbury-based stringer (part-time correspondent) Reg Shay and Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs. Shay had to leave the new West African nation last week when a Luanda official decided he might be "a CIA Rhodesian spy." Griggs has covered the independence of nine other former colonies since his first African assignment 16 years ago, so he knew just what to do when soldiers began carrying out predawn identity checks at his hotel. "When the first 4 a.m. knock came...
Blonde Reporter Sally Quinn sounded a trifle put out. "Who is Page Lee Hufty and what has she done to become Girl of the Year?" Quinn wondered in a prickly profile in the Washington Post. Page Lee who? She is a tall, good-looking blonde, by an old-rich Washington family out of the Madeira School and Stanford, who is 27, paints, rides horses and goes to parties. Since last year, when Senator Ted Kennedy was said to have been telephoning her frequently ("Ridiculous," she says), Page Lee has also become the darling of the D.C. society pages, including...
...style and displayed with show business flair. Shoppers swarm about high-fashion boutiques, fondling designs by Anne Klein and Yves Saint Laurent. They taste fruitcake samples in the lavishly stocked Delicacies Shop, which among its 7,000 items has 146 varieties of bread and 300 kinds of cheese. Coos Lee Radziwill, Jackie Onassis' sister: "It's the obvious place to go for everything. Oh gosh, it's the most fantastic and exhausting store in the world...
Shirley was far from tinsel town's idea of a blessing. Calling the industry moguls "blockheads," she stormed East to New York in 1962. "I guess I just didn't want to be Natalie Wood," she told the press on arrival. She studied with Lee Strasberg, won a Venice Film Festival award for her role as a subway seductress in LeRoi Jones' Dutchman, and earned a reputation as a terror on Broadway. Once, to protest what she felt was a director's incompetence, she singlehanded trashed the set of a play. "I'm a practical...