Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pointed Ceremony. Much of Ford's week was devoted to the ceremonial aspects of the presidency. He crossed the Potomac River to the Lee-Custis mansion in Arlington to "correct a 110-year oversight of American history" by making a formal restoration of citizenship to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The most pointed ceremony of the week occurred on Saturday -Ford's anniversary day in office. The President and Betty Ford had dinner with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife Happy. The get-together was a gesture of support for Rockefeller, who has recently come under fire...
...those who showed, reported TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, it was a convention to remember. Delegates were met at Entebbe International Airport by bare-breasted dancers, native drummers and Big Daddy himself. The highlight of a presummit cocktail party was the entrance of Amin, ensconced in a sedan chair toted by four otherwise staid British businessmen who live in Uganda; Big Daddy's 280-lb. bulk, it was jokingly explained, was now "the white man's burden." Amin squeezed out a few tunes on an accordion to entertain his guests and proudly showed off a presidential menagerie that included...
...more than conservation or even development of alternate sources of energy will be needed. The nation must also find new pools of oil at home and drain every possible drop from already known domestic reserves. That has not been happening, and some critics, including former Federal Power Commission Head Lee White and Ralph Nader, charge that the oil industry has had an incentive to drag its feet in order to reduce the supply and force prices still higher. The evidence scarcely supports that accusation: petroleum producers lately have been sinking more holes into American soil than at any time since...
...Lee said that the group of 55 Health Careers students be incircumventible people star calling it inhumane," Dube said...
...William Wallace, director of the Health Careers summer program, arranged the lecture, but declined yesterday to comment on the authenticity of Lee's acupuncture theory