Word: let
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ostensibly to pick up a cargo of fruit for Australia. But Magsaysay's alert FBI-style National Bureau of Investigation had been tipped off that Lewin owned the ship, had signed on its crew and was aboard himself. They found him listed as second mate and refused to let him land. For the next two months Manila witnessed a bizarre spectacle. Lewin protested that he was being heartlessly separated from his loving wife in the Manila penthouse, eventually earned a hearing. Day after day Judge Bienvenido Tan journeyed out to Lewin's ship to hold court aboard...
...determined not to let Lewin get away with his activities. The chief of the National Bureau of Investigation, Lieut. Colonel Jose G. Lukban, an old Magsaysay man, wrote a letter to the Deportation Board citing Lewin as "a dangerously undesirable alien" guilty of 1) black-marketing in currency, 2) running illegal gambling, 3) harboring a Chinese wanted for murder, 4) "corrupting public officials and frustrating the present administration's efforts to eliminate graft and corruption in government." On the strength of these charges, Lukban got a warrant issued for Lewin's arrest...
Fortnight ago, as Lewin lolled in his penthouse in natty dark blue sports shirt and slacks, NBI agents burst in to haul him off to jail. He thought he could get out on bail easily-"Goddamit," roared Lewin through the cell door, "don't let me sleep here tonight"-but Lukban saw to it that Lewin spent the night in his cell. Next morning, as the fur began to fly. Garcia's Secretary of Justice Alejo Mabanag announced that NBI Chief Lukban would be fired "for the good of the service," and Lewin, free on bail, sped away...
...Americans are teaching us many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget, YPF will drill 4,100 wells on its own by 1965, has let contracts to Kerr-McGee, Southeastern Drilling and the Italian ENI for another...
...fight has run as briefly as 8 minutes 10 seconds; at its best, one night in Philadelphia, it lasted longer than 12 minutes. "It was," says Penn, "one of the greatest things I have seen in the theater. Everyone, including myself, was too moved to do anything rational, let alone punch a stop watch. The audience came out of its seats yelling...