Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once thriving city is now jittery and almost eerily quiet," reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda. "For weeks, residents have been dragooned into daily workouts at a dusty soccer field to practice street-fighting techniques; the sessions include being stomped by instructors to toughen stomach muscles. All Angolan males between 18 and 35 have been declared part of a 'Popular Power Militia.' Meanwhile garbage piles up in the streets, attracting scores of scrawny, scavenging dogs and cats abandoned by their departing owners. Most buses have broken down and roadways are littered with wrecked cars...
...juggles the two most important cases of his 14-year career as a prosecutor. The first of these -the charge that Hearst was a willing participant in the Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery in San Francisco-brought Browning into court last week against famed Defense Lawyer F. Lee Bailey. It was an encounter to whet courthouse appetites. "Browning versus Bailey?" remarked a San Francisco attorney. "The only question is what school Patty will enroll in next year. Bailey will...
...memories. Sparger (Don Parker) is a homosexual actor from the off-off-Broadway café scene, and he provides acerbic comic relief. Mark (Michael Sacks) is a pill-popping veteran of Viet Nam trying to sort out the dubious good from the known evil of the war. Rona (Kaiulani Lee) is the bruised child of Selma, Ala., and Woodstock, and Carla (Shirley Knight) is an ex-go-go dancer who wanted to go at least as far as Marilyn Monroe. In an altogether sterling cast, the performance of Miss Knight should receive a star of spun gold. Perhaps the most...
Turned Corner. Though the sales figures represented only the second consecutive good ten-day reporting period, they signaled to auto executives that Detroit was rebounding along with the U.S. economy. "Our business turned the corner with the introduction of the 1976 models," declared Ford President Lee lacocca. Chevrolet General Manager Robert Lund noted that early October truck sales were also significantly higher: 34% above the 1974 figure. "Trucks are always a weather vane for business," he said. "People buy them to make money with them...
...also upset about the tone of the article, which makes Mary Lee and I seem some sort of martyrs for undergraduate education. It was only after concluding that time for our other interests would not be seriously infringed and that the positions would not be fiscally detrimental that we decided to accept an offer to continue...