Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Adjacent Lives, Ellen Schwamm ·Faeries, Brian Fraud and Alan Lee ·Short Stories, Irwin Shaw ·Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ·The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever ·The World According to Garp, John Irving War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
...aloof Kansas Republican Governor Robert Bennett, never really popular in his state, fell victim to the widespread voter unrest. He was upset by Democrat John Carlin, 38, speaker of the state's house of representatives. Wisconsin's image as one of the more liberal states was transformed by Republican Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 52, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, who was seeking office for the first time. He unseated Acting Governor Martin Schreiber, 39, a career politician. Yet Dreyfus, who describes himself as a maverick in a populist mold, saw no ideological portent in his victory...
...cabinet members, Transportation Secretary Harry Hughes, 51, quit in May 1977 in protest against an attempt to meddle with Baltimore subway contracts. Hughes, once so obscure that he was described as "a lost ball in long grass," in September upset Mandel's successor, Acting Governor Blair Lee III. Last week, Hughes' fresh face was too much for for mer Republican Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., who had difficulty explaining why he had accepted campaign funds in 1970 from an illegal fund-raising operation organized by the Nixon White House. Hughes buried Beall...
...also had some problems with her prickly personality. But her record of fiscal austerity prevented Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin from making a believable antispending pitch to Connecticut voters. She defeated Sarasin easily and will remain one of the country's two women Governors. (The other is Washington's Dixy Lee...
Four months after being ousted as president of Ford Motor Co., and six days after he had stunned the auto world by taking the same post at troubled Chrysler Corp., Lee Iacocca, 54, sat down with TIME Correspondents Barrett Seaman and Paul Witteman to muse about his new job and his industry. Iacocca's conversation is pure stream of consciousness, leaping from topic to topic at machine-gun speed; it is also refreshingly blunt and unencumbered by modesty. Excerpts: ON WHY HE CHOSE HIS NEW EMPLOYER: I had many offers to be chief executive of big [nonauto] companies...